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This concept video is answering the member question about discussing width at

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the bottom

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of the swing.

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So I had a member question come in about the kind of the plane and the look of

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width at

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the bottom of the swing, specifically talking about ulnar deviation.

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I think ulnar deviation is one of those kind of really misunderstood concepts

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in the golf

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swing.

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The movement of ulnar deviation tends to create some stability or tension in

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the wrist.

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It also is on the same line as the triceps, so it helps to straighten the arm.

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And if I maintain this ulnar deviation, then that creates this really good kind

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of width

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in the follow through.

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And it also helps stabilize the wrist or prevent the clubface from doing some

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crazy

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things.

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If I was to do the opposite, if I was to hinge and bend, then what can happen

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is not only

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does the clubface turn over very quickly on the way through, the radius changes

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, so my

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contact gets way off.

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The club passes my hand, so the loft changes a lot.

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And I'm going to usually have some type of compensation movement from my body.

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So that second version, where I don't have a lot of ulnar deviation, tends to

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create

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more chaos down at the bottom of the swing.

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So how does this show up on video, and where can we monitor or look to see how

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we are doing

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with our ulnar deviation?

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A lot of people think that if I get ulnar deviation, then I'm going to get the

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toe digging

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into the ground and the heel off the ground there.

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But really what I'm doing when I do ulnar deviation is I'm creating kind of

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maximum

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width.

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I already talked about how I'm creating some forearm stability, but I'm also

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creating

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some maximum width.

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If I was vertical like this, that will create a look of the heel being off the

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ground.

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But if I was to rotate and create some side bend, now you can see that even

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though the

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wrist is in this ulnar deviated position, because of the position of this trail

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shoulder

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and trail arm in lead shoulder, the club head is actually flat along the ground

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.

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So it doesn't necessarily mean that I have to raise the club up.

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To raise the club up, oftentimes what would happen is I'm going to early extend

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or move

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my body in towards the golf ball and create a very vertical kind of lumbar

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spine or lower

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thoracic, kind of like this.

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And often what'll happen is when I've stood up like this, often what'll happen

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is I'll

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go into internal rotation of the shoulder.

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And when I do that movement, if I was to, I'd usually have kind of a weaker

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grip and

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scoop kind of like this.

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Now this is close to toe down with not a lot with negative shaft lean.

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And if I was to hold the club up, you can see I actually don't have a lot of ul

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nar

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deviation.

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If I was to ulnar deviate and do that, you can see as I ulnar deviate, it

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becomes really

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hard to move the club backward compared to if I, a radial deviate.

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So this ulnar deviation not only helps create the swing plane from the down the

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line camera,

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it also creates shaft lean from the face on camera.

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And it gets the club working towards its maximum width after impact rather than

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already reaching

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its maximum width prior to impact and then bending on the way through.

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So I'm a big fan of getting that ulnar deviation and maintaining it while I get

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some of that

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supination and good shoulder mechanics as I'm going into my follow through

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embracing.

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This will help me with avoiding some of the worst problems that are associated

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with not

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enough ulnar deviation.

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Typically swings that don't have a lot of ulnar deviation can get a lot of thin

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shots

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and can get a lot of poles.

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If I get a fair amount of ulnar deviation, it will tend to create more of a

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right start

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line and it will widen the swing so it will tend to give me more solid contact

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or tend

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to give me a little bit better low point depth control.

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So we covered a few things in this video but the big point is that ulnar dev

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iation helps

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shallow out the club and create that swing plane while my body is steepening

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and rotating

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and it maintains the width and gets me into this good follow through position

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rather than

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the old idea of trying to get those hands as low as you can and then kind of

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swinging

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weight to the left.

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I tend to find that creates a lot more problems than getting good ulnar dev

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iation.

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The trick to getting good ulnar deviation is being able to maintain some of the

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extension

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in that trail wrist and being able to get your body to sequence, so getting

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your shoulders

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and your spine in a really good position to complement the maximum width

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created from

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that ulnar deviation.