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This drill is rate of motorcycle. So motorcycle is talked about a lot on this

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site because it's one of those really critical movements. In fact, if I had to

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pick my top two or three movements, the motorcycle is going to be one of those

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movements that has just the biggest most profound effect on most golfers.

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Essentially, the motorcycle is just the timing of when you start closing the

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clubface. So one of the ways that I like to demonstrate this to people is

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showing

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them on 3D one of these graphs where we look at called axial velocity.

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Basically,

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what you'll see is if we were to look at the straight line of the club just

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like

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so, the amount that it is open or closed or the speed that is going like this

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is

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what we call axial velocity. So what I feel that a lot of the best ball

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strikers do is they will tend to have the rate of this clubface rotating kind

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of

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like this. If we go up to the top of the swing and then on the way down it's

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going to look kind of like this. So as it's moving, it's just kind of closing

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at

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almost a constant speed the whole time. What I explain in the motorcycle timing

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and when I'm talking to people about the motorcycle, what often happens is

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either it will go open kind of like so and then close very, very quickly or it

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will close very quickly and then kind of open or try to open. It doesn't

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actually do that but they'll basically hold off that that closing as best they

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can through the release. What I'm looking for is kind of a constant rate or a

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constant speed of this motorcycle movement. What that looks like in the

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swing will be relatively hard to see because it'll look like a normal clubface

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position. But as I talk about in the motorcycle timing, if your clubface is

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pointing way open at this point, then you're going to have to kind of slam it

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shut and while that may not truly affect clubhead speed, it may not actually

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affect delivery, what it will really do is it will affect your body position so

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it'll force you to get that path in a different way that tends to be less

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consistent. So when you're working on this motorcycle movement, just create

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this

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image in your mind that this club is going to be basically going like this, the

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entire downswing, pretty much until you reach that follow-through position and

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that'll typically help smooth out if you're having trouble either not doing it

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long enough or not doing it early enough. This way of thinking about it has

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cleared

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up some issues for a number of students so hopefully it helps you with the

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timing of your motorcycle movement.