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In this concept video, we're going to address the idea that you're not wristy,

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your shouldery

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in your swing.

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So this concept video, we're going to discuss the role of the shoulders versus

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the role

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of the wrist, especially down in the release.

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So a lot of golfers complain about being really scoopy, flippy, wristy, kind of

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having more

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of a look of the arms bending, the club getting closer, the club passing, fast

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over

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taking rate, whatever you want to call it.

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Well, one of my theories on that is that the shoulders actually have a bigger

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impact on

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your low point control as well as your face control down to the bottom than

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perhaps the

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wrist.

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And I'll show you what I mean.

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So there are two ideas in play.

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One is club face control, and two is low point control, or solidness of contact

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So when we're talking about low point control, what you'll see is if I hold the

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club straight

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out in front of me and I just go really wristy and use my wrist back and forth,

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kind of

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like this, you'll see that the club is continuing to come back to around the

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same area.

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So if I was down here and truly wristy, so didn't try to not move a whole lot

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other

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than just my wrist, which is virtually impossible, but I'll try, my contact and

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my low point

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actually isn't that bad.

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Now, I'm a little weak because all I can use is my wrist, but I'm making

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relatively solid

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contact because the wrist is a relatively simple joint and it's going to bring

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the club back

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to a pretty narrow range.

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Now on the other hand, if I change my shoulder blades, kind of like this, so if

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I take my

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shoulder blades and really reach or bring my shoulder blades back, you can see

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how much

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the club would move.

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I could be this high off the ground and then just use my shoulder blades to

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move the club

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a good six inches or so.

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So now, if I don't use my wrist, but I just try to move my shoulder blades, it

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's very

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hard to make solid contact.

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Even if I add a little bit of pivot, I've tried this many times and it is

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really challenging

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to reach with the shoulder blades in the exact direction and make solid contact

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So if I keep my shoulders more connected and just use the wrist, I tend to get

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a little

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bit better contact rather than if I just use my shoulders.

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So that's kind of theory number one.

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Theory number two is club face control.

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So if I put my shoulder, my trail arm in external rotation a little bit like

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this and

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the lead arm, so I'm in this good impact position.

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Now if I rotate my forearms as much as possible, you'll see from this overhead

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camera that

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I can get that pointing, you know, a good 20 degrees to the left.

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Now if I was to change that and stiffen my forearms, but then rotate my

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shoulders.

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So kind of like I'm using a steering wheel and rotating that steering wheel to

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the left,

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you can see that I can turn the club a great range of motion, right?

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So a lot of golfers who have trouble with pulling the ball or possibly getting

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the path

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going way to the left, that can be if I rotate my shoulders a lot, then I can

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hit some quite

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nasty, gnarly pull start lines where on the other hand, if I keep my shoulders

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more in

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this external rotation position, or if I keep them in kind of this under

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position like that,

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now if I rotate my forearms a lot, a lot, a lot, it's still quite challenging

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to hit

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it more left than in that case I hit it, you know, maybe 5, 10 degrees left as

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opposed

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to 30, 40 like I was doing with the shoulders.

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So the double benefit of having the shoulders in a little bit more stable

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position when

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it comes to quality of strike is it helps control the width or the radius

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control and

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it helps kind of be a governor for not being able to close the club face too

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much.

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So those are two different direction ideas.

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Now the last one you would say, well what about power?

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And yes, there are definitely some golfers, especially if your core and your

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spine is

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pretty stiff, who get a lot of power from reaching or pulling with those

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shoulders and

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getting that shoulder blade change.

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So from really throwing with those arms and those shoulders, they, some golfers

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do create

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a fair amount of speed.

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Now I'm going to pose the kind of play devil's advocate.

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If I had a medicine ball and I was going to throw it down target line kind of

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like this,

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I would probably if I had a heavy enough object and I wanted to really use my

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bigger muscles

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in my core, I would connect those shoulders just like I was doing a medicine

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ball movement

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in the gym.

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I wouldn't hold the medicine ball out like this and try to throw it because I

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would be

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weaker in rotation.

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Now if I was going to throw the medicine ball down, then I would let the

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shoulders come

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up and I would really kind of pull them down.

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I wouldn't lock them in because I would be weak in this up and down motion.

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So I can make the argument that if you are trying to create the power through

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your core

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more rotationally than connecting the shoulders is actually going to transfer

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and make your

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core more powerful.

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But if you're going to create the power more vertically using those shoulders,

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then disconnecting

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the shoulders would make you a little bit more powerful.

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So as far as using the shoulders versus the wrist, a lot of golfers who look on

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are told

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that they look very scoopy, that can actually be a really fast shoulder change

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motion rather

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than a fast wrist change of motion.

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So I tend to now support them a lot of golfers who look very wristy down at the

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bottom actually

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look wristy because they're overusing their shoulders.

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So if it's something you haven't explored in your release or in your impact

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ideas, then

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I would definitely look at some of our drills relating to the shoulder

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connection or if

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you're going to connect the shoulders, you have to learn how to use the fore

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arms a little

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bit better.

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Otherwise, it'll take away some of your, you might flare them off to the right

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is the

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most common one.

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So working through some of the shoulder and the forearm drills can help on

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three different

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fronts that all results in a lot more consistency.

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So hopefully this helps clear up some of the ideas of why I advocate some of

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the shoulder

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and forearm movements the way that I do.

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I think if you do them, they help with power creation.

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If you're doing it rotationally, they help with low point control and they help

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with

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straightness of contact or not worrying about over closing the club face.

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So try that for a little more consistent release pattern.