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This concept video, we're gonna revisit motorcycle timing. So in this video, we

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're going to talk

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about the timing of the motorcycle. The motorcycle is the club rotation or the

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shaft rotation

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that closes the face during the downswing. Now the reason we need some amount

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of motorcycle

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is if I was to get set up here and we were to kind of zoom in on the club face

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there,

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if I get into a good merry-go-round position and I don't change my wrists and

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my forearms,

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then what will happen is as I create shaft lean, I'm hitting the ball earlier

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in the

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arc, the club face is now pointing like 20-30 degrees out to the right. So then

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if I was

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to flex and supinate the wrist a bit, now the club face is square. So to offset

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the amount

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of shaft lean, I have to have some amount of motorcycle or shaft rotation. That

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can happen

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at pretty much any time before impact, but there's some common times that we'll

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see

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it with the tour pros. One, the most common is in transition, where as they go

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up towards

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the top of the swing, the wrist is going to be in a fairly neutral position and

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then

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as they're rotating, they're starting to rotate that left wrist or bow that

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left wrist. It's

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going to continue rotating as it gets down towards the bottom of the swing.

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That rotation

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has become more supination rather than just flexing the wrist and that

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combination is

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going to get a very gradual rotating of the club face the entire downswing. But

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some players

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don't like that feel and so there are two other times that you could do it. The

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second

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most common would be doing it in the backswing and getting the position almost

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kind of locked

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in more at the top of the swing. Now, on the grass, we'll still see a little

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bit of the

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motorcycle movement during the downswing, but it will feel like it's more just

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locked

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in during the backswing. I think that's a great solution for a lot of golfers,

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especially

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if you have a ton of forearm tension and you're having a hard time creating

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some movement

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during transition. Just getting it there and then kind of holding it in that

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position

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is a good solution, especially if you struggle with a slice pattern. So that

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would look

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more like as I'm setting the club, I'm going to feel like I'm twisting the club

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and bowing

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the wrist there. And then I'm just going to keep it in that position all the

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way down.

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Now the last category is people who do it more during the release. I think that

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this

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is the least common and kind of the most risky. The one advantage is that

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potentially it allows

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you to really kind of create a massive amount of wrist lag during the downswing

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. So it can

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be very powerful from the wrist perspective. I think it can limit your ability

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to create

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speed globally like through the body, but a lot of long drive players and some

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good ball

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strikers have adopted this pattern where it's more of a late twisting and sup

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inating from

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a extreme kind of radial hinge or open club face kind of like this. So that one

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I think

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involves the most timing. It's it's the one that I am kind of least comfortable

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with,

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but this is you are your own golf coach. You can kind of decide if you are

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struggling

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with getting shaft lean or if you're struggling with a ball flight where it's

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curving off to

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the right, we need to get more face rotation. And I would advocate doing it

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either in transition

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the most traditional way or during the backswing at the top of the swing. Okay,

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so if we were

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to demonstrate and kind of walk through a few of those, we'll go, we'll do

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these in kind

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of like slow motion. So if I was to go up to the top of the swing and keep the

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club in

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a more neutral position, then as I start down, I can bow the left wrist or I

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can feel like

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I extend more of the trail wrist. So either one will help me start rotating

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that club.

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And whenever we're doing these kind of motorcycle drills, the main rule is don

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't hit it right.

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So that was a little bit more of a pull. Potentially body was a little bit off

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on that

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trying to do the super kind of Tai Chi version, kind of similar to that. But we

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'll work with

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that. So then the second option, which I find in these slow motion drills is

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potentially

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a little bit easier. So then the second option would be to bow it during the

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backswing and

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then just kind of maintain. So bow and then maintain and I swung a little bit

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harder.

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Hit that one a little bit more solid. One of the advantages of doing this type

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of experimental

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practice is once you find one way to feel what impact feels like, then it's

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easier to

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experiment with other ways. But if you kind of always struggled with your hands

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being

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a little bit more back in the club based open kind of chicken wing bend, then

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any one of

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these solutions will help us get more shaft lean and better contact and better

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consistency.

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All right. So now we'll try the third version, which would be more of kind of

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like a float

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load and a little bit more of this snap close down at impact. Kind of like that

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. And again,

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for people who are very handy and risky, that went further than either of the

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other two,

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and I was still trying to do a slow motion swing, but it did feel like all the

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speed

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and energy was coming from my wrist. If you do advocate that one, you have to

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really work

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on bracing and kind of stability of the lead arm so that it doesn't overdo the

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club face

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closing and get you to hit some poles. But there is some variety in the system.

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You can

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wear flexibility. You can play around with what works best for you. I would at

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the very

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least recommend experimenting. If you're if you're looking at the down the line

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camera

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and the club faces in more of an open position here, then you either want to do

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it during

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transition or the top of the swing. That's kind of a really easy downswing

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checkpoint

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for figuring out which one you should play around with the most.