WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.800
So in this analysis video, we're going to take a look at the

2
00:00:02.800 --> 00:00:06.200
driver swing of Charles Hal the third. So in the first video, I

3
00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:10.920
did an analysis of his iron play and how geometry can really

4
00:00:10.920 --> 00:00:13.360
help make you a really good iron player. In this video, I'm

5
00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:16.440
going to talk a little bit more about the dynamics of his

6
00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:19.880
swing. And specifically, I'm going to share a little story

7
00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:26.840
about his fitness program and how that how he trains his body

8
00:00:26.840 --> 00:00:29.400
can influence how well he's hitting his driver.

9
00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:32.880
Okay, so if we start the swing analysis the same way, if we

10
00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:35.840
look at the driver swing, we can see that he's got some pretty

11
00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:40.160
good track man numbers, right? Overall, pretty neutral path,

12
00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:44.920
slightly close, so he's going to get a nice little draw, hitting

13
00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.680
slightly up on the ball. This is something that he and his coach

14
00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:52.000
have worked on the ability to do that's helped him a lot, really

15
00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.920
solid numbers. So the question is, okay, he's got really good

16
00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:03.640
path numbers. Why would someone like Charles Hal tend to get some

17
00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.920
open clubface issues? Because he'll tell you that his main

18
00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:12.160
miss is when he hits the ball off to the right. So I'm going to

19
00:01:12.160 --> 00:01:14.280
talk to you about what's going on in his swing that might

20
00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:17.920
contribute to that, and how it might relate to your game, if

21
00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:22.120
you struggle with either your driver or your iron play. Okay,

22
00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:26.080
so if we look at this position, shaft is pretty vertical. So

23
00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:30.600
even though he has lean or leg compared to his body, similar to

24
00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:33.440
what he had with the iron, because his upper body is so much

25
00:01:33.440 --> 00:01:36.720
more behind the golf ball, the shaft is pretty vertical. That's

26
00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.880
help. That's one of the aspects that helps with that positive

27
00:01:39.880 --> 00:01:45.160
angle of attack. He's from the down the line, we saw that the

28
00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:48.760
club path was pretty neutral. If we're looking at some of these

29
00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.640
checkpoints as far as where the club is kind of passing compared

30
00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:57.920
to the hands, you can see two little checkpoints as far as

31
00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.120
where is the club in the follow through when it kind of passes

32
00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:03.880
through the hands, the more that it passes on this side of the

33
00:02:03.880 --> 00:02:07.400
hands, the more it's going to be in out, and the more that it

34
00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.040
passes on this side of the hands, the more it's going to be

35
00:02:10.040 --> 00:02:14.760
out in. So a lot of you golfers who slice the ball, you'll have

36
00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:20.520
the club kind of follow a path from impact where it'll go a

37
00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:26.520
little bit more low, kind of like this. So anyway, he's got

38
00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:31.120
pretty good path numbers from these two, which you can kind of

39
00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:35.000
see a little bit from the two checkpoints. Seeing that risk go

40
00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:39.480
into extension there in the downswing is often hard to see.

41
00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:45.840
So here is a 3D wrist graph looking at flexion extension. So

42
00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.280
there's an older swing of Charles, he's he's actually worked

43
00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.440
on this and definitely gotten better at it. So you can see

44
00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:56.960
that he starts with the wrist in about 35 degrees of extension.

45
00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:59.840
And then during the backswing, as he gets towards the top of the

46
00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:03.600
swing, it's pretty close to flat. But you can see right through

47
00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:08.880
here is he's starting to go towards extension until about

48
00:03:08.880 --> 00:03:12.160
delivery positions a midway in the downswing. And then from

49
00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:16.080
there when it goes positive like this, that's when he's flexing

50
00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:20.880
that wrist. So we can see right around here is where that little

51
00:03:20.880 --> 00:03:24.960
trough or that maximum extension in the downswing would be. And

52
00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.840
then from here down to him down to where right around this frame

53
00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:35.000
here, he would be flexing the wrist and then lose a little bit

54
00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:40.040
as he goes through impact. But what can happen is when you're

55
00:03:40.040 --> 00:03:43.360
flex when you're opening that club face by extending the wrist

56
00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:47.480
early in transition, it adds a little bit of timing that you're

57
00:03:47.480 --> 00:03:50.960
trying to do when the club is moving really fast. The metaphor

58
00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:56.000
that I use is imagine we were playing bad men. And the rule

59
00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:00.400
was I was giving you heavier and heavier badminton rackets. So

60
00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:02.920
at first, with the badminton racket really light, you can be

61
00:04:02.920 --> 00:04:06.440
totally out of position and just flick your wrist and square the

62
00:04:06.440 --> 00:04:09.360
club face up. But if I gave you a badminton racket that weighed

63
00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:13.880
two pounds, three pounds, 10 pounds, the heavier it got, the

64
00:04:13.880 --> 00:04:18.120
more that you have to be in position earlier in order to

65
00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:21.320
line everything up because you couldn't rely on just changing

66
00:04:21.320 --> 00:04:25.840
it accurately last minute. Well, when it comes to the driver,

67
00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:29.560
the driver is a longer club and we swing it faster, it's got more

68
00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:33.000
inertia. Essentially down at the bottom, it's like a heavier

69
00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:37.760
racket and it becomes harder to then time up squaring the club

70
00:04:37.760 --> 00:04:41.240
face late. So a lot of the really accurate and really

71
00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.280
consistent drivers to golf ball tend to squared up early.

72
00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:50.480
Now, I promised I'd talk to you a little bit about his power

73
00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:54.800
sources and how they relate. Charles has a tendency to pull

74
00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:58.920
down with the arms, especially the lat. So I'll share a quick

75
00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:05.040
story from a tournament that I went to with him, where they

76
00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.840
were on the range at this time he was working with Grant Waite

77
00:05:07.840 --> 00:05:11.640
and they were swinging really well, had a, you know, just

78
00:05:11.640 --> 00:05:15.840
hitting lots of nice little draws. And I said, I walked over

79
00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:19.480
to him because I kind of had this idea about his overdominance

80
00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:22.240
with his lats and I said, Hey, do you mind if I mess you up a

81
00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:25.240
little bit? Do a little experiment? He kind of laughed at me

82
00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.440
saying like, you can't mess me up. But lo and behold, I had

83
00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:32.480
him drop the club and get into like a lat pull down position.

84
00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:35.320
So he's kind of like this and I went and put my arms underneath

85
00:05:35.320 --> 00:05:38.240
them to apply a little bit of resistance. And I just had him

86
00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:43.040
pull down kind of, you know, a little aggressively, just to

87
00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:45.760
activate the lat. So I had him pull down for about 10 seconds.

88
00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:50.600
After that, he proceeded to hit the next four balls about 40 or

89
00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:55.360
50 yards right. So basically, all I did was I activated his

90
00:05:55.360 --> 00:06:00.920
power source so that he was using more of his lats to pull

91
00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.360
called down. And when he was using more of his lat's in

92
00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:07.960
transition, he tended to open the face a little bit more and

93
00:06:07.960 --> 00:06:12.200
flare it off to the right. Now he's kind of an experimenter

94
00:06:12.200 --> 00:06:16.960
tinkerer by nature. So when he went home, a few weeks later,

95
00:06:16.960 --> 00:06:21.560
he tested it out himself. He went to the, he normally works

96
00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:25.240
out and then goes to the range. So during his workout, one day,

97
00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:30.880
he did a lot of TRX rows and and lat pull type exercises. And

98
00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:35.280
he said that he hit the ball really terribly felt like he was

99
00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:40.080
kind of stuck all day. And then later in that week, he did the

100
00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:45.360
program that we had decided. So he did a lot more mobility work

101
00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:49.240
and a lot more stability work, some end range strength. But most

102
00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:53.920
of the heavier lifting was for his core and his legs. And that

103
00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:57.000
day he hit the ball great. So part of the equation, when you're

104
00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:01.560
looking at the driver or the longer club swing is matching up

105
00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:05.480
how you power the swing with how you control the clubface. And

106
00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.440
what can happen is if you are too upper body dominant, that can

107
00:07:09.440 --> 00:07:14.480
tend to cause clubface control issues with the driver. And you

108
00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.360
typically wouldn't see the same level of control issue with the

109
00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:21.760
iron. So you want to be, if you want to be really good and

110
00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:25.880
consistent with the driver, we want to get more of the speed

111
00:07:25.880 --> 00:07:29.560
being created from your legs and your core and less from your

112
00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:32.800
arms and shoulders. If you're looking for clues with your

113
00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:37.320
power source, sometimes it's activities away from golf that

114
00:07:37.320 --> 00:07:42.880
can help. So here's Charles doing an exercise in his gym, where

115
00:07:42.880 --> 00:07:47.160
he's got a swing fan and he's just kind of working on some

116
00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:51.400
backswing positions. And you'll notice, if we look at his foot,

117
00:07:51.760 --> 00:07:57.400
you'll see that he has a tendency to get a little bit further

118
00:07:57.400 --> 00:08:03.040
down into the downswing before he gets into that heel. So you'll

119
00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:08.360
see that this right here, if we kind of scrub back and forth, is

120
00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:12.680
a little bit more of the upper body leading the core, as

121
00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:16.160
opposed to the lower body leading the core. So this is an

122
00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:19.920
area where doing things like step drills and sequence drills

123
00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:23.800
helps to get the lower body involved earlier. And that can

124
00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:28.400
also oftentimes kind of down regulate or depower the upper

125
00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:31.760
body. That improves your sequencing, allowing a little bit

126
00:08:31.760 --> 00:08:36.040
better face control, ultimately creating a little bit better

127
00:08:36.040 --> 00:08:40.480
situation for the driver. Oftentimes golfers with more of an

128
00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:44.320
upper body pull will complain of two situations that cause them

129
00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:48.160
to hit the ball or to lose face control. And both of those

130
00:08:48.160 --> 00:08:51.520
situations are when the power source gets exaggerated. So one

131
00:08:51.520 --> 00:08:56.080
is when they're trying to swing hard. So if you have a

132
00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.840
tendency to swing more with your arms in your upper body, I'd

133
00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:02.200
advocate working on your rhythm and working on making sure that

134
00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:06.800
you resist the temptation to swing hard. The second thing is

135
00:09:06.800 --> 00:09:11.360
when you get extremely nervous, when your body gets stressed,

136
00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.880
you're going to tend to exaggerate or amplify your

137
00:09:14.880 --> 00:09:20.080
power sources. So if you have more of a pulling or arm

138
00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:25.240
dominant power source, working on managing your emotions and

139
00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:28.760
breathing exercises and things like that might be helpful as

140
00:09:28.760 --> 00:09:32.800
well. But long term, if you want to improve your driver's

141
00:09:32.800 --> 00:09:36.120
sequence, I'd highly recommend getting your lower body a

142
00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:39.640
little bit more involved earlier and relying less on your arm

143
00:09:39.640 --> 00:09:43.040
pull for your power source. So this video is a little different

144
00:09:43.040 --> 00:09:45.520
than my typical analysis videos. Typically, with the analysis

145
00:09:45.520 --> 00:09:49.200
videos, I want to just share what golfers do really well. But

146
00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:52.720
I've got some, some inside experience from working with

147
00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.920
Charles personally. And so I thought it'd be fun to kind of

148
00:09:54.920 --> 00:09:58.600
share how I approach things a little bit more on the coaching

149
00:09:58.600 --> 00:09:59.000
side.