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Seeing Face Rotation on 2D Video-preview
Help you Identify your club face squaring style. This can be useful for understanding why your body looks the way it does though impact.
Tags: Swing Analysis Videos, Controlling the club face, Impact
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this call smart insight is seeing
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clubface rotation with 2d video so it I
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had a member asked you know how can you
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tell if you're rotating the club closed
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or if you're doing it more with the
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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
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how you can use down the line video to
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identify whether you're doing it more
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with shaft rotation or whether you're
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doing it more with the in-plane Club
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movement or arm straightening from the
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down-the-line camera the really telling
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phase is gonna be just below waist
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height or just below shaft parallel so
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what you'll tend to see is from here we
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have to look in 3d space so we're gonna
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have to use face on as well as down the
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line to see what's going on you'll see
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that there the clubface rotated towards
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the ball but if I did that facing the
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camera that is happening more from the
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in-plane movement or more from my arm
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straightening all right we'll look at a
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couple different examples of each style
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it takes a little bit of practice
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getting to be able to see it and you
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can't see it as accurately as you would
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on the graph but we just want to see the
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general pattern so what you're looking
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for is the clubface angle relative to
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the shaft so if I were to move through
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these frames and let's just indicate
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where the club head is that gives us
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just a rough line of travel that the
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club is the only one now you can see up
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at the top there the club is pointing
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straight up and down and then at this
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point you can see that it is pointing
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closer to perpendicular to the swing
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plane and then down here you can see
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that it's pointing more or less at the
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ball it's before we look at a couple
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amateur examples I want to show a elite
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level golfer who uses more
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or less of the face rotation model so
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here you can see Phil Mickelson and you
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got the the clear vision of the club up
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against his body and you can see that
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through this space now that you know
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what to look for you can see there's not
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a lot of rotation it's pretty much close
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to the same angle compared to the path
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of the club through that space it closes
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a little bit can be a little tricky to
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tell the amount of rotation so one good
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little check point is you if you get the
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club to let's say halfway between shaft
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parallel and impact typically the
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golfers who do this will have more of an
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open clubface and it'll be pointing more
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out perpendicular to the target line
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instead of at the golf ball golfers
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who've had that shaft rotation or
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getting the arms more in front at this
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point and by this position the club will
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typically be pointing at the golf ball
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now unfortunately that's not absolute
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here's a golfer that appears to have
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very little rotation but you can see
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that because of the severity of the
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closed clubface you can see that it's
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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
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was having a little bit of face rotation
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through this phase but you can see that
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it's corresponding with more the grip
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releasing here on the right side of the
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body same thing over here we didn't see
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very we saw a very little face or
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rotation but we did see it happening a
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little bit down at the bottom so you'll
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see that it's pointing more at the
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target through this straightening of the
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arm along the right side of the body and
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that'll typically cause the club to come
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up very quickly same thing over here
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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 a company with a
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chicken wing or bending in the arms so
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hopefully this video made sense and
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helped you understand how you close the
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club face but if you're interested in
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learning more about your own game head
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