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Myview - Deconstruct The Motorcycle

What the motorcycle looks like through my eyes.

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What the motorcycle looks like through my eyes.

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this my view is deconstructing the motorcycle so I had a couple questions

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or feedback from the hin path and looking at this transition or looking at

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this motorcycle move so I want to do a video where we can see exactly what this

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motorcycle movement is doing so let's take a step back and talk about why this

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motorcycle happens or I guess the fact that you already know that this

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motorcycle happens so if I asked most of my students where should your left

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hand

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be on at set up most of them will say that this V should be pointing over here

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and I should have two and a half knuckles three knuckles visible in my left

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hand

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it's kind of a neutral grip and if I did so I'm gonna have about 25 degrees of

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extension in this lead wrist now the next question I'll ask is okay so what

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should it be like an impact and they'll say oh that left wrist should be flat

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so

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the motorcycle movement is basically working on the timing of when do I do

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this so the motorcycle movement yes it adjusts the club face but there are

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other things that can adjust the club face as well so while not everyone is

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going to make the same motorcycle movement and have the club look like

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it's in the exact same position there are some trends that we can see when you

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look at mine it's not going to look quite as closed as you may expect it to and

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I'll show you a couple of reasons why so if I go to here and then I do that

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motorcycle movement and I come down you can see that that club is virtually

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straight up and down now there are numerous things that I can do to adjust

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the location or adjust the position of that club face one if I were to have my

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arms more on my side and my hands down kind of like so you can see the same

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amount of motorcycle let's close the face even more so because I have fairly

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flexible shoulders and I'm able to get my arms in front of my chest a good

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amount that's going to delay the effect of the motorcycle movement or the

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closing of the club face secondly during the full swing I'm going to compress

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against the ground and my upper body is going to get closer to the golf ball

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the

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more that it tends to stand up the less that that club face is going to get

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closed so while I'm demonstrating this movement at kind of less than full speed

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I'm not going to have quite as dramatic a load against the ground and as a

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result the club face is not going to look like it's quite as close so the

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third piece would be this location of my shoulders so out here I've got my

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motorcycle movement so my left wrist is just past vertical and the club face is

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pretty much vertical now from here if I was to raise my arms up you could see

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that that would have a little bit more open club face if I was to straighten my

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arms or bring them more down even though they're still in front of my golf my

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body that's going to close the club face more so if you are used to doing kind

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of

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a casting motion where you're getting the arms away from you and kind of more

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vertical what you'll see is when you start applying this motorcycle movement

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the club face is going to look very shut like so as you work on getting more

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and

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more of the power coming from the core and delaying this extension of this

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right arm that's going to delay the effect that the wrist is having on the

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club face so there's other factors to where the club face is besides the

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motorcycle movement but without doing the motorcycle movement from either the

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lead wrist or the trail wrist it makes it very hard to sequence your body have

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side bend and have the proper sequencing that helps produce kind of the tour

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impact conditions that you're striving for so if I were to make those same

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movements so I'll bring this over here so if I were to make those same

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movements

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and those same adjustments so there's my motorcycle right now if my arms are in

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front kind of like so you'll see that club face for me is roughly vertical if

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I was to straighten my right arm you can see that that closes the club face if

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I

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was to bend more forward that closes even more if I were to stand up early

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extend

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that opens it more so all of these different movements are going to adjust

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how much that club face is closed on video but I'm looking at how those club

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face or how those movements are in relationship to the body that'll give you

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a little bit clearer indication of how you're controlling the path how you're

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controlling the face all the way down to contact

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Myview - Deconstruct The Motorcycle

What the motorcycle looks like through my eyes.

Show more

What the motorcycle looks like through my eyes.

Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.240
this my view is deconstructing the motorcycle so I had a couple questions

2
00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:11.080
or feedback from the hin path and looking at this transition or looking at

3
00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:14.640
this motorcycle move so I want to do a video where we can see exactly what this

4
00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:19.680
motorcycle movement is doing so let's take a step back and talk about why this

5
00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:24.160
motorcycle happens or I guess the fact that you already know that this

6
00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:27.910
motorcycle happens so if I asked most of my students where should your left

7
00:00:27.910 --> 00:00:28.160
hand

8
00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:32.800
be on at set up most of them will say that this V should be pointing over here

9
00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:36.240
and I should have two and a half knuckles three knuckles visible in my left

10
00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:36.560
hand

11
00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:41.560
it's kind of a neutral grip and if I did so I'm gonna have about 25 degrees of

12
00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:46.560
extension in this lead wrist now the next question I'll ask is okay so what

13
00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.680
should it be like an impact and they'll say oh that left wrist should be flat

14
00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:50.320
so

15
00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:56.280
the motorcycle movement is basically working on the timing of when do I do

16
00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:01.480
this so the motorcycle movement yes it adjusts the club face but there are

17
00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:06.960
other things that can adjust the club face as well so while not everyone is

18
00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:10.560
going to make the same motorcycle movement and have the club look like

19
00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:16.080
it's in the exact same position there are some trends that we can see when you

20
00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:21.120
look at mine it's not going to look quite as closed as you may expect it to and

21
00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:25.560
I'll show you a couple of reasons why so if I go to here and then I do that

22
00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.280
motorcycle movement and I come down you can see that that club is virtually

23
00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:34.640
straight up and down now there are numerous things that I can do to adjust

24
00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:39.840
the location or adjust the position of that club face one if I were to have my

25
00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:43.920
arms more on my side and my hands down kind of like so you can see the same

26
00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:48.960
amount of motorcycle let's close the face even more so because I have fairly

27
00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:53.280
flexible shoulders and I'm able to get my arms in front of my chest a good

28
00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.640
amount that's going to delay the effect of the motorcycle movement or the

29
00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:04.480
closing of the club face secondly during the full swing I'm going to compress

30
00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.110
against the ground and my upper body is going to get closer to the golf ball

31
00:02:08.110 --> 00:02:08.520
the

32
00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.840
more that it tends to stand up the less that that club face is going to get

33
00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:17.600
closed so while I'm demonstrating this movement at kind of less than full speed

34
00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:23.120
I'm not going to have quite as dramatic a load against the ground and as a

35
00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:28.960
result the club face is not going to look like it's quite as close so the

36
00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:33.520
third piece would be this location of my shoulders so out here I've got my

37
00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:37.640
motorcycle movement so my left wrist is just past vertical and the club face is

38
00:02:37.640 --> 00:02:44.080
pretty much vertical now from here if I was to raise my arms up you could see

39
00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:47.840
that that would have a little bit more open club face if I was to straighten my

40
00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:51.240
arms or bring them more down even though they're still in front of my golf my

41
00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:56.130
body that's going to close the club face more so if you are used to doing kind

42
00:02:56.130 --> 00:02:56.200
of

43
00:02:56.200 --> 00:03:00.240
a casting motion where you're getting the arms away from you and kind of more

44
00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.800
vertical what you'll see is when you start applying this motorcycle movement

45
00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:09.140
the club face is going to look very shut like so as you work on getting more

46
00:03:09.140 --> 00:03:09.480
and

47
00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:14.000
more of the power coming from the core and delaying this extension of this

48
00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:18.960
right arm that's going to delay the effect that the wrist is having on the

49
00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:23.320
club face so there's other factors to where the club face is besides the

50
00:03:23.320 --> 00:03:27.360
motorcycle movement but without doing the motorcycle movement from either the

51
00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:32.120
lead wrist or the trail wrist it makes it very hard to sequence your body have

52
00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:36.280
side bend and have the proper sequencing that helps produce kind of the tour

53
00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:41.020
impact conditions that you're striving for so if I were to make those same

54
00:03:41.020 --> 00:03:44.200
movements so I'll bring this over here so if I were to make those same

55
00:03:44.200 --> 00:03:44.600
movements

56
00:03:44.600 --> 00:03:50.080
and those same adjustments so there's my motorcycle right now if my arms are in

57
00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:54.200
front kind of like so you'll see that club face for me is roughly vertical if

58
00:03:54.200 --> 00:03:59.370
I was to straighten my right arm you can see that that closes the club face if

59
00:03:59.370 --> 00:03:59.720
I

60
00:03:59.720 --> 00:04:03.360
was to bend more forward that closes even more if I were to stand up early

61
00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:03.760
extend

62
00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:09.000
that opens it more so all of these different movements are going to adjust

63
00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:13.720
how much that club face is closed on video but I'm looking at how those club

64
00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:18.200
face or how those movements are in relationship to the body that'll give you

65
00:04:18.200 --> 00:04:21.960
a little bit clearer indication of how you're controlling the path how you're

66
00:04:21.960 --> 00:04:25.760
controlling the face all the way down to contact

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