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This concept video addresses the member question about overcoming a physical

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barrier to getting open. So basically the question is how do I know if I can

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get

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open or you know how do I know if I have a physical barrier? Maybe I have a

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tight

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hip, tight T spine, limited trail arm external rotation. These are always

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touted

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as barriers that you're never going to get open if you have that physical

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restriction. While there is some truth you're never going to overcome what your

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body is capable of doing there's a lot more coordination built into these

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patterns than just purely your physical capability. If it is a true physical

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barrier then you never get there. I'll let that sink in for a second. If it's a

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true physical barrier then you never get there. So oftentimes I will have golf

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ers

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who hit a shot where their body is basically facing the golf ball like

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this you know no rotation stand up flip and then into the follow-through. Look

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I've gotten into or I've rotated into my lead hip. Now if I was truly

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physically incapable of rotating into that lead hip then it wouldn't be a

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timing issue. I would never get there. What I would typically see is more as I

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go through my whole hip and foot would spin together or I would go into the toe

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and kind of rotate more at the knee like I wouldn't actually rotate into the

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hip.

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So one of the ways that you can check and see if it's a true physical barrier

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or

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if it's just a coordination pattern is by looking at the follow-through to see

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if you get close to where you're trying to get to an impact. If that's the case

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then it's more of a coordinating pattern of getting the arms to match doing the

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body movements earlier. So that's where I often use the rewind from follow-

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through so

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if we go to this position and then I say bring the club back to impact for a

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lot

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of golfers you're gonna feel like wow my body is way way open I feel a stretch

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feel a pull all my weight is forward. Those are more sensations helping you

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dial in the pattern rather than I didn't physically make you more flexible. So

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if

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you do have if you are worried about getting into a physical position at

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impact the common places where I see the restrictions would be most likely in

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not being able to rotate your thoracic spine and the reason that becomes a

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barrier is it's very hard to hit a good quality golf shot if your shoulders are

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way open like this so if you get your hips open and you don't have the

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flexibility in your spine to be able to have your your shoulders square while

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your hips are open which comes from a combination of rotating to the right as

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well as tilting to the right if you're unable to do that then it's unlikely

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that you're going to overcome that in in the follow-through position. So that

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would be one where I do think having some some stretching and doing some

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mobility work or massage can really help open up that side. So if you find when

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you do the merry-go-round drill that you know it feels like a eight or nine out

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of ten like it's a maximum stretch then you that might be a physical barrier to

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getting open but rarely do I see a pure physical barrier in the hip that

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prevents you from getting open. Especially if you use a normal set up

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position where that front foot is turned out a good 20 degrees or so then I don

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't

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actually have to get into my my physical hip rotation until after impact or I

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don't have to get into internal hip rotation until after impact. So if you

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are worried that you're physically incapable because of either a trail

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shoulder or because of a hip maybe because of thoracic spine double check

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your follow-through position if you're in a good body position and follow-

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through

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and it's not there at impact then it's more of a coordination pattern and less

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of a true physical mobility issue.