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In this concept video, we're going to take a look at the sway pattern.

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Now, the sway pattern is typically defined as lateral movement of the pelvis,

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but the

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sway can also be thought of where pressure is in your trail foot.

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So if I was to make a normal backswing, the tour average is that my pelvis is

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going to

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shift about a half inch away from the target, which part of that is just

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because of if I'm

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rotating into my right side, which the majority of golfers do, then what you'll

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see is the

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pelvis is going to shift just slightly or about half an inch in order to load

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into that hit.

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If we're looking at the pressure and how it relates to the trail foot, what you

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'll tend

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to see is the pressure of a good golfer is not going to get outside kind of the

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midline

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or even the big toe of that trail foot.

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So as an example, right now I'm pushing through the inside of my foot.

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If I was to go like this, now I would be pushing on the outside of the foot.

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A better sway is when I tend to shift my hip, but my foot and my pressure still

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says on

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the inside of the foot, where an amateur or a higher handicap sway is typically

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going

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to have both the hip as well as the foot work towards the outside there.

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The sway pattern is not necessarily that problematic for the driver, but it can

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cause major contact

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and flat spot issues when working on your iron play.

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There are two times during the backswing that you will typically see this sway.

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So the first would be during the takeaway, which I call an early sway, and the

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second

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would be during setting the wrist or what I would call a late sway.

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Of the two, a late sway is typically more problematic than an early sway.

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An early sway is more or less going to be a little bit of a rhythm movement.

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And as I'm rotating back, I'm going to shift.

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Now it typically is indicating that I'm not using my adductors and my lower abs

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It typically means that I'm using more of the outside of my hip, more of my

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knee and

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more of my mid back in order to pull the club away, but as long as I don't have

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my pressure

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go to the outside of the foot and it's just kind of shifting in kind of like so

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, it can

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be more of a timing movement and not necessarily a major problem.

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You'll see examples in the analysis video of a few torporos who tend to have

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this pattern.

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The second one would be the late sway, which would be not during this early

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part, but during

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the setting phase kind of like so.

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And that tends to be a little bit more problematic.

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If I'm swaying during the setting phase, it's revealing what my body wants to

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do during

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the downswing.

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So typically what's going to happen is if I want to create rotational speed

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kind of

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like so, then it makes sense for me to be braced up against this right leg and

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have something

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to then push off in the general direction of the target.

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However, if I'm going to use my arms and basically pull straight down kind of

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like so, then it

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actually makes a little bit more sense for me to sway and have my arm more

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vertical kind

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of like that.

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So a late sway is typically revealing my power source and how I'm going to use

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more of an

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upper body dominated or a left let dominated movement during transition.

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So if you have this late sway and you work on it for let's say three, four, six

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weeks

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and you don't make dramatic improvement, put it on the back burner and then

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work on the

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downswing sequencing and often when you go back to this way, it will be much

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easier to

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fix.

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When you do ultimately take away the sway, what will typically happen is the

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swing will

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feel shorter, it will feel more compact, and it will feel like it took a lot

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less time

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or quicker.

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And that's largely because this little kind of wasted space up at the top to

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load that

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left lat takes a fair amount of distance kind of in the brain where if I was to

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just rotate

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and load, it's going to feel like I've stopped my swing at a different part.

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Basically, if I sway and I have this big arm movement, I'm going to tend to

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feel the restriction

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up in the shoulder, which is closer to the club.

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If I load and kind of reach away kind of like, so I'm going to tend to feel

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like the restriction

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that stops my backswing instead of being the shoulder is going to be more my

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trunk, my core,

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or even my hips.

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So because that's closer to the ground, it's going to happen possibly quicker

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and your

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swing will feel like it's a little bit shorter.

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A lot of golfers who struggle with the sway pattern tend to have success in

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other sports

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where this lateral movement and subtle lateral movement is actually encouraged.

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Things like tennis, things like baseball, things like soccer, where I'm kind of

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moving everything

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on my feet, kind of like so, where in golf, it's a lot more balance oriented

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and I want

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to stay kind of a little bit more on the insides of my feet.

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It tends to feel for those golfers like it's more restricted.

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But with practice, with some balance work, and with some training, because this

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is a

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backswing issue, it's one that you will typically have a lot of success with

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fixing.

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And because it's related to iron consistency, it's going to be very rewarding

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when you take

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away your sway and you start hitting more and more greens with greater

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frequency.