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In this analysis video we're going to take a look at the swing of Alex Norin.

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More importantly we're going to take a look at this practice move or this

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rehearsal swing and what you can learn about it and apply to your own game. Now

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Alex Norin has been a great putter but in the last few years he's found

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something that's really improved his ball striking and he's climbed all the

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way to 13th in the world. In this video I'm going to help you understand how

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his

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practice routine is helping his ball striking. So over here on the left we

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have an older swing and over here on the right we have a more current swing.

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This

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is prior to his big jump in world golf rankings and ball striking improvement

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and this one over here on the right is demonstrating the swing that has helped

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him climb close to the top 10. Now whenever I work with a new student I always

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show them their video or take a video of their swing and ask them what do they

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see and they always key in on one or two things they may say I've got a flip or

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a scoop chicken wing I've got a cast I'm not turned enough I'm standing up

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whatever it is they always focus on one thing and then what I'll usually ask

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them is okay if we change that what else would we have to change and that's

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where sometimes I get the kind of frozen look like I'm I'm sure if I just make

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that one change I'll hit the ball better. What Alex pre-shot routine and

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rehearsal swing helps us understand is that usually there's like four or five

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things that you would have to change when you make one change. The key is

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finding one drill or one feeling that allows you to combine some of those

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things into one playing feel. So if we look over here on the left we will see a

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few of the things that change or that he wanted to change and why they used

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that

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rehearsal drill. So at the top of the swing you'll see his initial movement is

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a little bit more of a pull of those arms down. He does have some some shift

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of his lower body but his lower body doesn't really start to get going until

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down somewhere in this zone. So that first transition move is more of a pull

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down of the arms. Now when he pulls down with the arms you'll see right about

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halfway that right elbow gets kind of stuck on the side of his body and becomes

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just kind of a pivot. You'll see that right through there that right elbow

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doesn't come across his body too much. It stays more behind his body as he

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releases the club out. The momentum of the the arm kind of pivoting around that

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elbow back there then causes more of a scoop action on the way through. If we

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look over here on the right you'll see from the top of the swing it's a little

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bit more of a blended or a unified transition movement. You can see that his

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lower body and his core are helping bring his arms down into position and then

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you can see down here his elbow is much more in front of his body and it

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continues to move in front of his body all the way during the release. So

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instead of having a look of the arms pull the elbow gets stuck and then the

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hands flip he has more of a unified pull arms get in front and then whole arms

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release together not just the wrist. These are some of the differences that

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have

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helped him elevate his ball striking to near top 10 status. Here's an older

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swing from down the line. It's not a great camera angle but it was one of the

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best I could find and then here's that same practice session from about a year

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ago. Now many golfers also would look at this and they might have looked at the

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face-on and they might have said that the swing looks pretty much the same what

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what I keyed in on in that face-on view is somewhat subtle unless you know what

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to look at but sometimes it's those subtle differences that really create the

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difference between your quality shots and your bad shots. You don't always need

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a

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complete swing overhaul sometimes you just need a few movements to work a

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little bit better together. So now if we look at the down the line there's

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where

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we can see more of that arm pull and you'll see that as he does that arm pull

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this left shoulder is actually looking like it kind of elevates. Now over here

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you'll see that that left shoulder stays down a bit longer that's what helps

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create some of the space for that right elbow. Here you can see that right

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elbow

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get stuck behind and then right through there is where he's releasing more of

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his

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wrist instead of his whole arms where from this view he's able to shallow the

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shaft a little bit better with his arms and then he's able to release

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everything through the arms the wrist and kind of the body together. Here

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because

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that arm got stuck and had to work more out towards the target or work more out

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towards the golf ball you'll see a little bit more of a stall pattern

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accompanying a little bit more of a hand flip. Here there's a lot more

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connection going on during his release. So now if we look back at his practice

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swing we might understand a few of these pieces a little bit better. You'll see

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that that left shoulder stays down to help create some of the space that right

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elbow gets well in front and the body the lower body and core is rotating

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through that early transition point. You'll also see that he's organizing the

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club more with the forearm so he's creating nice that little shallow

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movement with his forearms and you'll see that that there's a little bit of a

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variety in that one. You can see this he's focusing where it appears that he's

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focusing more on the body the lower body portion and he lost the the club shaft

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just a little bit coming down through here. So it appears that he's able to

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focus on a few different areas with this one unified drill.