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This video is going over the overall shape of the swing and the roles of the

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different parts of your body. Now this is really good for beginners but if

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you're experienced player this is a nice way to look at what we're trying to do

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with a golf ball with a golf club in my hand or when I'm swinging. So

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essentially

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what's going to happen is my body is going to be rotating and moving my arms

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and my arms are going to be transferring the speed that my body creates and

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directing that speed to the golf ball. Okay so if you've played any other

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throwing or striking sport a lot of the similar rules are going to apply which

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is basically when I load up in my backswing I'm trying to create some stretches

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in my hips and in my core and then as I start down I'm going to try and use my

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lower body first then I'm going to try and use my core then I'm going to use my

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shoulders and then finally right before impact I'm going to use my hands and

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wrists. So this pattern of going from the ground all the way up is the most

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effective or the most efficient way of creating speed. If I was to break it

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down

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even further let's talk about what the body needs to do. The body is going to

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rotate and create some of this movement of the arms. Essentially my arms are

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going to stay kind of in this little bubble out in front of my chest. They can

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move around a little bit they can change with the wrist positions but

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they're not going to work too much around my body or way up here unless I'm

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hitting

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kind of some specialty shots. So then what's going to happen is dependent on

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how my body moves that's going to control where my hands go. So if I were

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rotating kind of back and forth just like so the club would move in a circle.

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If I

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were to then hinge my wrists and rotate and then go body arms that kind of gets

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that timing of how the arms and the body work together. So the body's job is to

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create the speed the arms job is to direct that speed to the golf ball. What

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most

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amateurs or most beginner golfers tend to struggle with is they do the opposite

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They will tend to create a whole lot of speed by chopping or throwing their

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arms

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kind of like so which is a combination of a whole bunch of movements and then

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they will direct it or control where that's going to bottom out by how much

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they stand up or how much they hang back or how much they move their body. So

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our goal in trying to correct that is to create these good impact positions so

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that when my arms simply extend the golf ball gets in the way. As opposed to if

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I'm creating speed with my arms my arms are already extended and I have to use

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my body to perfectly position. Okay so if I stand up that amount that's kind of

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what most amateurs end up looking like. So as you go through these beginner

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drills

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we're going to focus on a good grip so that we can use our wrist through full

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motion. We're going to focus on a good setup so that our hips and our spine are

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in position to make a good backswing and then we're going to focus on some of

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the geometry of kind of keeping our body relatively centered. What I mean by

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that

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is if I was to stand up like so and then rotate you can see that that club kind

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of moves around my body. Well in the golf swing it'll actually have a little

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bit of variance to it. It kind of loops a tiny bit but when I'm bent over the

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body is almost going to look if I make a good backswing as if it turned right

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around my spine. Now as you go through the layers you'll understand that that's

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not exactly the case but trying to keep this upper body or this head kind of

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over the golf ball helps control where the bottom of the swing is going to be.

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I'm not saying I want you to keep your head glued on the golf ball or your eyes

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glued on the golf ball because having some rotation with your head actually

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helps. What I am saying is that having a whole lot of up movement of the head

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or a

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whole lot of movement forward backward of the head is going to make locating

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the

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golf ball that much more complicated. So we're going to try to create this

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movement, this body movement around a kind of stable center and then you're

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going to transfer all that energy using your arms.