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This drill is pelvis to club X-Factor. So pelvis to club X-Factor is looking at

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a

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key relationship between the club shaft and your pelvis. So I'm going to use an

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alignment stick to help make it easier to see where my pelvis is facing. The

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original X-Factor looks at the difference between your upper body and your

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lower

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body primarily from an overhead view. So you create kind of a difference

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between

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your upper body and lower body which would create this X-type shape and what

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they hypothesized was the bigger the X-Factor the further you'd hit it or it

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got revised to say that the more you created a stretch between the two on the

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downswing and the faster you caught the top piece up to the bottom piece so the

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faster you close that X-Factor stretch the further you hit it. Well I'm going

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to

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give you a different X-Factor, one relating the club shaft to the pelvis to

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help you understand how shallowing works and what you might have to feel if you

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're

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trying to get out of an over-the-top swing pattern or for some of you this is

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part of a overly inside-out swing pattern. So basically what we're going to

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look

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at is the relationship between the club shaft and the pelvis and in order for

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me

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to swing from the inside if I have this alignment stick up against the pelvis

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then I'm going to create almost a 90 degree angle between the pelvis and the

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club shaft. It's not quite 90 degrees it's a hard thing to measure so I don't

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know exactly what the number is but visually at about this shaft parallel

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checkpoint the hips will be you know 30 degrees open and the club will be

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slightly inside it creates a relationship just like so. What many golfers who

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are

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more upper body dominant will tend to see is that at about halfway down the

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club

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and the pelvis will be pointed in the same direction and what happens is if

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that's the case you'll never be able to really get your lower body to lead

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because the more that the lower body leads the more that the club gets overly

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outside. Where this relates to some of those golfers who hit more of a hook is

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you can get the two pointed in the same direction kind of like this where the

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arms are working steep and the pelvis is still relatively square. So whether

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your

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pattern is more of an outside-in pattern or whether your pattern is more of an

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inside-out pattern to hit kind of big draws big hooks then either way it could

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be a sign of lacking some of this arm shallowing. So what I'm going to do on

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this next one is I'm going to try and increase the difference between those

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two and I'm going to slide this so that you can still see the angle but it no

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longer impedes my arm movement because where I had it before when they were

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dead parallel it would have actually gotten in the way. So now I'm going to do

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just a little pump and you can put the club between through your belt loops or

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sorry the shaft between your belt loops if you want to be able to do this with

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both hands but what you'll see is that by getting these two at a greater angle

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it will be much easier for you to swing from the inside but it will also take a

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feeling of letting the club wait a little bit longer in order to get the hips

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open with the club back. So now that you've seen the relationship I'll do a

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couple

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focusing on it without the club shaft in the belt loops. So now I'm going to

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focus on getting it more and more behind just kind of like so so that I can

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visualize that same angle and hopefully you can see it from that down the line

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camera view. So you can do this in either a pump style or you could do it in a

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to 3. So as a 9 to 3 you're gonna get in this position now everything's kind of

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square. I'm going to preset that lower body open and then swing through from

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there. So good release mechanics will be easier to do from this X-Factor

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position

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between the pelvis and the shaft. So now I'm going to do more of a pump style

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so

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I'm going to bring it up and get that club well behind compared to the pelvis.

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I'm going to try to really exaggerate it and use that pelvis getting open in

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order to bring the club in front not using my arms. So pump it again to there

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pump

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it again back up and then pump and you'll see that it creates a the look that

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most

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of you are trying to get and if you are used to getting the club totally

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parallel

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to your pelvis either because you get too far from the inside or too far from

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the outside. If the club shaft is parallel to your pelvis at waist parallel it

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's

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going to be really hard for you to do either a really good motorcycle movement

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or it's going to be really hard for you to lead the downswing with your lower

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body and those are two key components of really solid ball striking.