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In this concept video, we're going to go over the movements that help you

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create power.

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So in the first concept video, we talked about how to maximize your speed just

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by working

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on your path.

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Well, it's really these movements that help you either create more elastic

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movements,

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create, transfer more energy into the club head, or potentially affect the path

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So in the drill section, we'll go over ways that you can feel these different

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stretch

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shortens and things.

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But in this video, I'm just going to go over and highlight why we're doing

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these drills

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and what we're trying to accomplish.

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So let's take the example of a rubber band, right?

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If I was to create a 10-inch stretch with a rubber band and let it go, I would

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get a

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certain amount of power.

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Well, if I was to create an 8-inch stretch and then go 2 inches and then let go

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, I would

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get even more power going in the direction of the target.

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That's a funny way or a silly way of looking at a stretch shortens cycle, which

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is how

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we create the most amount of power in the golf swing.

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So if you set up to the golf ball and you go to the top of your swing, your

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maximum

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stretches should happen during the downswing.

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One of the biggest areas that they talk about is something called the X-Factor.

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And Jim McLean did the first research, and then it's been amended by Phil Che

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atham or

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Rob Neal.

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It's kind of evolved over the last 20 years.

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But basically, X-Factor is looking at, from the top of the swing, how much are

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you increasing

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the stretch on the downswing, and then how quickly are you closing it?

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Well, you can create these little X-factors or these pre-stretches at any point

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in your

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body.

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So you can create it in your legs, you can create it more in your hips, you can

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create

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it in your rib cage, you can create it in your shoulder, elbow, and wrist.

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Those are the big areas where you can create speed.

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The biggest four are being your wrists, your shoulders, your core, and your

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legs.

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So we've got drills in the drill section, which go over a lot of the specifics

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of how

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to get that.

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But the concept that I want you to understand is you have to monitor how you're

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creating

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club head speed, or rather how much club head speed you're created, not based

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on how

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it feels, but with some type of objective measurement, whether it's one of

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those simple

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little radar guns on the ground for looking at club head speed, they have

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watches you

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can measure, something on the club to measure, or just how far the ball is

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going.

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It is very problematic to measure it based on feel, because there's a saying

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that I

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like, and I forget where I heard it, but basically you want to create effort

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less power instead

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of powerless effort.

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Because there are lots of swings where you basically take it back and hey, if I

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feel

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like I swing harder, I'm going to try to create more speed.

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But very often does that create a significant amount of speed.

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What ultimately creates more speed is if you swing more efficiently.

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So if I create more leg, bigger stretch, shortens, weight longer and longer,

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more access till

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all these things that contribute to my path and angle of attack and contribute

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to the

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way that I transfer energy to the club.

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So pay attention in the drill section, because we'll go over how to create the

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lag in the

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wrist, how to create the lag in the elbows, how to create the lag in the

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shoulders, and

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how to create lag in your core, which all contributes to creating more power

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provided

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that you hit it in the center of the club.

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So when you're going through creating power, that's the other thing you have to

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monitor

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is you may be creating more speed, but if you're hitting it further out, out

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towards

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the toe, it might not go as far and you're going to tell me that my drills don

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't work.

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If the drills work, you just have to monitor why you're losing power, okay?

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So pay attention in the movements, pay attention to the contact, pay attention

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to the ball

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flight.

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If you do them right, you should see a dramatic increase in your distance.