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This video is monitoring right-side bend for the full swing. So monitoring

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right-side

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bend can be helpful for those of you who either don't have enough or have too

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much or getting it from the wrong place. So not all right-side bend is created

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equal. I'm going to give you a simple way to feel whether you're getting it

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from

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your hips or you're getting it more from your spine. So the simple way to feel

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it

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I'm going to put the club down here for a second is if you take your hands and

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you hold them kind of in the aloha symbol right now we're going to take our

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thumbs and place them on the bottom of our ribs. So you can just kind of poke

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around until you feel the bottom of your ribs and then take your pinkies and

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place

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it on the top of your pelvis. You're kind of like your ASIS. So now if I was to

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right side bend or left side bend I can feel kind of a crunching action and a

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lengthening action. So I can feel some change there versus if I was to tilt

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from the hips I can feel that this relationship stays pretty much the same

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but I can create a pretty good amount of side bend just by going through the

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hips as opposed to keeping the hips level and going through the spine. So

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there are two common places where you can go into more of a spine side bend

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and not the hips and you want to kind of monitor it if you're working on your

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axis tilt especially if you start to get some lower back pain. So the two

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common

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places would be in transition and in the follow through. So what I'll do is

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from

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down the line you'll be able to see I'm going to have a little bit of left side

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bend as I go towards the top of the swing but then as I go into transition I'm

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gonna basically keep that left side bend and not let that right side get too

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low

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until I get into my release. So there's that transition move where I'm having

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it

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more from the hips as opposed to having it all from the spine from the face on

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view that'll look like this if I do it more from the hips it'll look kind of

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like that if I do it more from the spine it'll kind of look like that and it'll

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look a little bit more upper body dominant. The other option or the other

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place to kind of key on on is when I go through the follow through making sure

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that I'm getting in some of the side bend through the hips if the hips stay

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pretty level and then I get all the side bend through the spine that can be

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problematic for a lot of golfers both in terms of usually accompanying by a

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little bit more of kind of that roll release and creating some crunch factor

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in the right side lower back. So making sure that when I get into that good

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follow-through position that I've got some crunch in the spine but nowhere near

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my maximum. So I like to say that if you're maximum is let's say 60 degrees

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or something like that. Tour pros at impact are going to be somewhere in the

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20 to 30 range and then when they reach their maximum it'll be somewhere around

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40. They're not really going to approach their end range of motion for this

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side bend movement of the spine. The way they do that is by getting some of the

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tilt from the pelvis and some of the tilt from the spine and that ends up

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creating more of a look like so where I'm kind of sitting in my pelvis as

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opposed to this which would be sitting more in my lower back. So if you're

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struggling with getting some of this axis tilt from too much spine side bend

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use your thumb and index finger to kind of do some homework where you can put

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in

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10, 20, 30 repetitions at a time just kind of really feeling this and as you

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put in more and more you'll get more comfortable getting into that movement.

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Once you're comfortable in that movement you can do whether it's

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transition you could do pump drills or if it's through the release you can do

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9 to 3 style drills and you can figure out why your body would be trying to

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avoid

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that movement. Is it because of contact and path or is it because I can't

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control

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my low point that's the investigation part of this whole procedure but know

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that we don't want to create maximum spine bend we want some of that bend

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coming from the pelvis and some of it coming from the spine and you can check

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that in a few key places using the low-hot thumb and pinky.