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This video is discussing the Sam Snead Squat.

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So I had a member question come in about the Snead Squat move and the lowering

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that guys

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like Rory do and basically was asking if I advocate that move.

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So I thought I'd discuss it and how it relates to some of the key movements

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that we talk

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about with the lower body.

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So this video could go a lot of different directions but I'm going to try to

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keep it focused on

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what's actually happening and then who is likely to feel more of a squat move.

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So when we look at this movement, when we go up to the top of the swing and we

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're talking

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about the Sam Snead Squat, you'll tend to see the look of the legs getting

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wider as the

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pelvis is starting down.

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So the key there is that that movement is happening more from the hips and it's

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happening from

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having the trail leg go into abduction or pulling away more like this.

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Some people describe it as a feeling of dual external rotation but we know from

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the measurements

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that that's not actually an external rotation of that hip, of the lead hip.

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But if we contrast that to a swing where a golfer starts down and this space

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doesn't

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really open up, well that's going to have more of this look of the squat move

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compared

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to more of a slide or a thrust from the down the line camera angle.

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So I actually like the movement of trying to get that look of more of this

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lowering movement.

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By lowering into the ground, that allows me to apply more friction against the

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ground

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and allows me to twist and push vertically harder.

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So you'll often see golfers who grew up a little bit on the lighter side, say

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Rory Mcaroy, Tiger

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Woods, lots of girls or women on the LPGA.

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You will tend to see more of this squat movement because in order to twist and

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push hard they

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have to use that lowering movement in order to get the friction.

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So the lowering movement we've seen on 3D that is commonly associated with this

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move.

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Now let's talk about some of the feels that you might have.

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Are you actually going to feel more of a squat move?

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So if we break this down, I've talked about what this right leg does in some

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other videos.

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But often times you can break it down into one of two things.

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The hip movements, if we're going to rotate out as the pelvis turns, if you're

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going to

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kind of feel this spreading the floor and you're going to feel this trail leg

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going

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into a abduction, that's going to feel more out or it's going to feel more down

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.

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Some golfers are more prone to feeling the out and some golfers are more prone

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to feeling

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the down.

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The key here is that either way, whichever one you're feeling, it's happening

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more from

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the hip and not from the knee.

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So a lot of golfers when they start trying to implement more of this feeling of

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squat,

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they tend to do it more from the ankle and the knee.

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And so you won't see this angle here change, which is a key component to the

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movement.

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So I actually teach it more because of this abduction move.

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I teach it more of a feeling of like a single leg lunge or more of a skater

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push, but it's

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moving back in this kind of back 45 degree.

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If you do that, that tends to get this look of the knees widening a little bit

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and then

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what will normally happen is after they widen in transition, they will then

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narrow during

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the release.

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So I have some golfers who feel more of this out in and then I have some golf

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ers who feel

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more of this down out, but in general, it's a really good move for learning to

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use your

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lower body correctly.

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So I have other videos where we kind of detail those movements, but in general,

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you're going

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to feel more of either an out or a down if your lower body is initiating

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transition and

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it should reach kind of this maximum downward pressure right around arm

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parallel to the

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ground or right around P5.

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So a lot of golfers who try to do this squat move do it too long and they go

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down well

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into the release and then all they're left with is more of a flip style release

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So if you're going to try to implement it, use some video, make sure to monitor

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that

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you are going down quick enough so that then you can be going up during the

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transition,

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sorry, during the release, or if you are going wide during transition, that way

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you can go

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narrow during the release.

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So the tricky thing is kind of working that timing of having the wide and down

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during

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transition and then the in and up during the release.

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For many golfers who struggle with this movement, who have more of a look of

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either going up

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right away too soon or staying the same height and then diving down during the

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release.

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For those golfers, they are used to the lower body movement being a firing

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movement right

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away where if you're going to implement more of the Sam's need, it takes more

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of this waiting

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feeling or more of this kind of I call a two stage rocket where you feel like

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there's

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a second movement happening in the downswing as opposed to just firing right

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from the top

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of the swing.

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So the movement is more out as it's going down from the hips and the timing is

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more out

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in as opposed to just a one vertical movement pushed straight from the top of

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the swing.

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So if you're struggling with some of this squat movement or proper lower body

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movement

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during transition, focus on either the positions and the direction of the

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movements or focus

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on the timing, both can have a big impact on how your lower body works in your

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downswing.

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Okay, so we'll throw one out there in more of a exaggerated, sneed look of more

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of a out

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in or what some people would feel more as a down up.