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This golf smart insight is seeing clubface rotation with 2D video.

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So I had a member ask, you know, how can you tell if you're rotating the club

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closed

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or if you're doing it more with the in-plane movement or arm straightening?

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Because it is a little bit tricky to see.

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So what I'm going to show you here is how you can use down the line video

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to identify whether you're doing it more with shaft rotation

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or whether you're doing it more with the in-plane club movement or arm straight

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ening.

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From the down the line camera, the really telling phase is going to be just

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below

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waist height or just below shaft parallel.

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So what you'll tend to see is from here we have to look in 3D space.

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So we're going to have to use face on as well as down the line to see what's

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going on.

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You'll see that there the clubface rotated towards the ball,

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but if I did that facing the camera, that is happening more from the in-plane

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movement

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or more from my arm straightening.

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We'll look at a couple different examples of each style.

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It takes a little bit of practice getting to be able to see it

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and you can't see it as accurately as you would on the graph.

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But we just want to see the general pattern.

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So what you're looking for is the clubface angle relative to the shaft.

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So if I were to move through these frames and let's just indicate where the

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clubhead is,

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that gives us just a rough line of travel that the club is going on.

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You can see up at the top there the club is pointing straight up and down.

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And then at this point you can see that it is pointing closer to perpendicular

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to the swing-plane.

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And then down here you can see that it's pointing more or less at the ball.

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Before we look at a couple amateur examples, I wanted to show an elite level

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golfer who uses less of the face rotation model.

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So here you can see Phil Mickelson and you got the clear vision of the club up

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against his body.

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And you can see that through this space now that you know what to look for.

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You can see there's not a lot of rotation.

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It's pretty much close to the same angle compared to the path of the club

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through that space.

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It closes a little bit.

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It can be a little tricky to tell the amount of rotation.

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So one good little checkpoint is if you get the club to let's say halfway

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between shaft parallel and impact,

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typically the golfers who do this will have more of an open club face.

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And it'll be pointing more out perpendicular to the target line instead of at

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the golf ball.

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Golfers who've had that shaft rotation are getting the arms more in front at

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this point.

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And by this position the club will typically be pointing at the golf ball.

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Unfortunately that's not absolute.

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Here's a golfer that appears to have very little rotation.

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But you can see that because of the severity of the closed club face,

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you can see that it's pointing at the golf ball at this time.

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So we wanted to confirm with the face on.

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Remember the golfer on the right there was having a little bit of face rotation

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through this face.

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See that it's corresponding with more the grip releasing here on the right side

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of the body.

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Same thing over here.

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We didn't see very, we saw very little face rotation.

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But we did see it happening a little bit down at the bottom.

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So you'll see that it's pointing more at the target through this straightening

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of the arm along the right side of the body.

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And that'll typically cause the club to come up very quickly.

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Same thing over here, more along the right side of the body.

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And so the club tends to come up quickly.

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You'll often see it accompanied with a chicken wing or bending in the arms.

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Hopefully this video made sense and helped you understand how you close the

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club face.

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