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in this analysis video we're going to

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take a look at the swing of Dustin

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Johnson now Dustin Johnson is a driving

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machine and put on an amazing display

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this year at the US Open winning his

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first major last year at chambers Bay he

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put on an equally impressive round in

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terms of ball striking and his putter

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just led him down a little bit this year

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he made enough quality putts to really

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capitalize on his brilliant ball

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striking in this video we're going to

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take a look at a few things that he does

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in the downswing then make him such an

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exceptional driver of the golf ball in

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ways that you can emulate some of those

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key movements and put them in your own

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swing everyone who plays golf loves to

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drive the ball far in straight Dustin

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Johnson is able to capitalize on his

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physical abilities and drive the ball

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better than anyone in the modern game

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this year at the US Open he was

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averaging about 20 yards further than

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everybody else in the field yet he hit a

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staggeringly high percentage of fairways

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given how far he hits the golf ball so

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what does Dustin do that make him such a

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great driver of the golf ball we're

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gonna talk about three things that he

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does he's going to power the swing

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primarily from his body he's going to

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close the club face and he's going to

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shallow his arms in transition after we

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take a look at Dustin's swing we're

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going to compare him to someone who's

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more of an arm swinger so that you can

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see some of the differences and how they

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might apply to your game so if we look

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at Dustin's backswing we can see that he

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gets into a really good athletic

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position up at the top of the swing you

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can see that for all intensive purposes

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he's kind of maintained his spine angle

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or he's rotated the large muscles as

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he's created this backswing pivot so

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he's loaded the muscles in his core his

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hips and his trunk so that he can use

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those muscles to start the downswing

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basically his arms are going to be a lot

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more passive during the downswing or

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during the early part of the downswing

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while his body is responsible for

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creating the initial

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the rust or the initial amount of speed

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so as he starts into his downswing

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you'll see that while his he has

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tremendous sequencing you're going to

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see that his lower body tends to

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initiate the downswing followed by his

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core followed by his trunk and then you

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won't see his arms really extend until

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he gets very close to making contact

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with the golf ball this will make a

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little bit more sense when we take a

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look at John Senden and compare the arm

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swing of John Senden to the body swing

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of Dustin Johnson

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so one of the key movements to this body

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swing is the arm shallowing component

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and here's what I mean by the arm

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xiaolin component so at this point in a

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swing we're just going to make a little

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note of where his posture is and you can

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see that his arms or his elbows if we

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were to kind of connect the bottom of

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those are at a slight angle compared to

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his spine angle or his posture now what

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we'll see is as he goes into the

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downswing you'll see that he bends

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forward and actually steepens

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his spine angle how much you can't

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really tell by a 2d video but you can

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see that he has steep in his his spine

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angle or his upper body's bent more

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forward towards the ground now at the

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same time you can see that his arms have

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slightly flattened so the right elbow is

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slightly lower than where it was at this

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point in the in the backswing so he's

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done this rotational arm shallowing

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movement which allows for his upper body

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to flex closer to the ground so that you

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can continue rotating through the shot

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that key component of the upper body

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flexing and the arm shallowing allows

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his body to rotate so that when he gets

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the impact you can see that his body is

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in that tremendous position facing more

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out towards the target and less at the

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golf ball the more that the body is

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facing out towards the target and less

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of the golf ball you'll tend to see more

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of this rotation side Bend you'll tend

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to see that the right elbow or sorry the

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right shoulder is going to be closer to

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the golf ball and

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as a result you'll see that the right

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elbow is going to have some flex in it

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so that body powering the swing is going

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to allow that right arm there really

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straighten through the shot instead of

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approaching into the shot that allows

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him to have a really good wide arc width

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after the golf ball which which I've

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seen with my research looking at 3d

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graphs to have a high correlation

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between driving consistency now the

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other piece is since he's rotating his

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body so much that's going to create

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impact happening more behind his body or

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towards the right half of his body as a

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result of the club not catching up in

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front of his body until after impact he

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has to have the lead wrist flexed he has

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to have the clubface rotated more closed

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than it was at setup that's what allows

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the clubface to point in the general

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direction of the target even though the

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club is well behind his body as it

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swings around the circle the club being

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well behind his body allows it to

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continue in a wider position through the

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follow-through which again helps with

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some of this flat spot as well as

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consistency that he's able to produce

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with his both paths as well as angle of

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attack so now we understand that having

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this great sequencing having the arm

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shallow and having the club or the lead

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wrist

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what more flexed during the downswing

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that was it setup those are all good

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keys to having a body driven athletic

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movement just like Dustin Johnson now if

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you decide that you don't want to have

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this athletic body driven movement then

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you want to swing more like a John

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Senden so what we'll do now is we're

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going to compare the body swing of

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Dustin Johnson to the arm swing of dust

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of John Senden so that you can see how

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these pieces fit together and which ones

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might apply most to your own swing so if

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you're going to be more of an arm

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swinger you will tend to see a couple

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common characteristics a

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you're going to see the height that they

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set at setup stay a little bit more

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consistent and more stable it's one of

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the things that kind of drives me crazy

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is when you hear the announcers on TV

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talk about how a lot of tiger shots a

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lot of the bad shots were caused by the

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upper-body dropping but they fail to

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talk about how Dustin Johnson and Rory

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McIlroy and some of them

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Adam Scott some of the more amazing

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drivers the golf ball in our era have

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significant upper body drops there's if

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we were to place the club at impact and

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just kind of lock it in a vise so that

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it's a certain distance away you can see

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that both of these two golfers roughly

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have the club in a similar somewhat

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position but their bodies are in totally

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different positions the more that I'm

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going to rotate my body towards the

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target the more that I'm going to tend

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to side Bend and so as this right

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shoulder gets more down towards the golf

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ball you'll see that the right elbow is

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going to externally rotate and Bend in

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order to accommodate for that distance

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the more that your head stays the same

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height the more that your upper body

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backs away you're going to tend to see

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that right arm straightening to

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accommodate the increased distance

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between the shoulder and the golf ball

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when the shoulder is closer to the golf

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ball as Dustin is demonstrating here

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you'll see him be able to extend his

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arms on the way through

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we're with someone like John Senden

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you'll see the arms are pretty much

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straight just after impact and then as a

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result you'll see the club pass and the

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body just kind of support the movement

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oh if you're going to be more of an arm

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driven swing or have more of an arm

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driven swing then you really want to

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swing easy and within yourself or else

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you're going to tend to have face

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control issues and tend to hit shots

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that start well off line the good thing

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about the body driven swing that we see

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with Dustin Johnson or Rory McIlroy or

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Adam Scott is that they are able to

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swing harder while still controlling

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their path and face to path relationship

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so if you're going to go more of this

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arm swing where

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you're using your arms to power and

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create the speed from the top you're

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going to tend to see less body rotation

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and impact you're going to tend to see

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less head drop and you're going to tend

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to see a straighter arm at impact so the

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less head drop more arm driven straight

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arm at impact tends to give you a little

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bit more difficulty creating a real long

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flat spot at the bottom which does

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produce some consistency issues with the

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driver especially if you err on swinging

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harder so if you're going to swing hard

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you want to be more like Dustin Dustin

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Johnson if you're ok swinging easy

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possibly playing a shorter club you'll

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do you'll probably do better and fit

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better into more of a John Senden model

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now the neat thing is that it's not a

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one-to-one it's more of a spectrum so if

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you are in this John Senden model where

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you're more of an arm swinger the more

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that you can relax your arms in

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transition power it more with your body

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and get closer towards this Dustin

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Johnson move in general the more

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consistent your ball striking is going

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to become especially with the longer

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clubs like driver and 3-wood so if

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you're not quite sure about these pieces

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Johnson swing or the John Senden swing

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