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in this analysis video we're going to

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take a look at the swing of JB homes now

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JB homes is consistently in the top of

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the strokes gained off the tee category

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and even though he has the look of a

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shorter swing he's consistently in the

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top of the club head speed ranking as

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well in this video we're going to

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discuss lag and how it relates to

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driving distance by understanding how to

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create the look of lag hopefully you'll

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spend your time practicing things that

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will actually improve your driving

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performance let's take a look at JB home

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swing starting from the top of the

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backswing so at the top of the backswing

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we can see that even though he doesn't

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have a classically full wrist set you

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can see that he's got a big coil with

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his upper and lower body so pretty good

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full rotation while maintaining his his

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tilts and the angles so he's in position

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to use his body really well and you'll

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see that during transition he does a

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great job of starting with his lower

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body his core and you'll see that his

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arms during that phase are going to

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shallow beautifully he does one of the

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he does a great job of getting that

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right elbow working back in front of his

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body in the club shallowing out during

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transition now as we get him down

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towards waist high torso or roughly when

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the shaft is pretty close to parallel

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you can see that he still has the look

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of keeping some leg but we know that at

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the top of the swing he didn't have a

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tremendous amount of hinge so the

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question is what gives this look of lag

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and how does that relate to creating 122

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mile an hour club at speed like the guys

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who bomb it like JB Holmes that's what

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we'll spend the rest of this video

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looking at and we're going to bring up a

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few interesting camera angles and some

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weird examples to compare if you're used

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to thinking of lag as just the angle

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between the shaft and the forum from the

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face on camera angle hopefully this

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video changes the way you look at it

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because if you looked at it that way you

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would probably decide that if you want

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to get more leg you need to just hinge

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your wrist more and what I've seen on 3d

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is that wrist hinge has very little to

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do with the appearance of lat

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here we have Corey Pavin who's known to

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be one of the shorter hitters on tour

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and he's hitting a pitch shot and you'll

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see that there's a similar angle or

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amount of lag between his club shaft and

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forearm so this is a kind of hyperbolic

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example to show that it's not just the

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amount or the angle that's going to

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produce this look of leg you can see

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that or rather even if you have that

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look of leg that's not what's going to

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create the club hezbi so there might be

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different ways of creating this look of

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lag in other videos I've talked about

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how there are actually two different

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ways you can look at leg just from the

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wrist perspective we I also like to look

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at lag as a sequencing trait because the

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more that you get your body involved the

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more that it's going to encourage this

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look of lag and that's where Corey Pavin

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tends to fall a little bit short the

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other there are two ways to look at

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specifically the wrist lag 1 would be

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hinging the club straight up and down

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like using a hammer and one would be

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rotating the forearm so that the club is

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more behind your body let's look at a

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day be swing from an overhead camera

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view to take a look at how he maximizes

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the rotational lag even if he doesn't do

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a great job of maximizing the vertical

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egg and it's that rotational lag that

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really allows you to use your body more

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effectively for creating speed we saw

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from the face on camera that at this

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position he had a decent look of lag now

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what we'll see from looking at it from

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overhead is that if we start to get back

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down towards that same position we're

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going to see how well he keeps the club

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behind his body which is another source

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or another way of looking at lag so from

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the overhead view you can get a really

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good look at where his chest this

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pointing or where his sternum is

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pointing and where the club shaft is in

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relation to that so now as we get back

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down to this would probably be pretty

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close to the same position you can see

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that the angle of this pelvis the angle

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this chest is chest is pointing

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somewhere out pretty close to the golf

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ball alright we can see from here if

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anything is pointing maybe even a little

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bit ahead of that and you can see that

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the club is well behind when he starts

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getting down towards impact you can see

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his chest is on an angle we'll do it the

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same way where it's kind of more

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perpendicular you can see that the club

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shaft is still pretty close to almost

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parallel to his chest that's another way

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in another form of looking at lag and

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what you'll see when he does that is

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that the club head doesn't actually pass

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his chest until late in the

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follow-through so the club head is not

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passing his chest until somewhere in

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through there another way of looking at

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lag and what it does is it allow it it

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means that you're using your body to get

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that your arms in your hands in position

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so it's delaying the timing of getting

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your arms and hands active that's

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another way of looking at lag and

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probably more relevant for how we want

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to create club at speed than just

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looking at the vertical hinge for

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comparison sake I've got a higher

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handicap golfer over here on the left

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now if you if you watch when I bring him

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down you can see that the club is

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already getting back out in front of his

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body if we were looking at JB Holmes it

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would have been probably closer to an

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angle like this in relation to the torso

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and he would have his hips and torso

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more open which would get the club in a

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similar-looking

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position so if we get this higher

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handicap golfer down to about the same

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amount you can see that JB's chest is

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pointing well out in front of the golf

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ball and the shaft is roughly

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perpendicular to that here you can see

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that his chest is pointing roughly at

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the golf ball and there's not nearly as

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much of an angle there so this is

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another way to look at the perspective

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of lag now I do a talk on the K vest

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level 2 certification where I talk about

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barriers to a good kinematic sequence so

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the next thing we'll look at is how the

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grip and clubface position relate to

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this ability to create this

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rotational leg from the face on camera

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we can see that jb has a bit of a strong

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grip where the v's are pointing

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somewhere outside of his right shoulder

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and we'll see that if he was to have his

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body in the position of that higher

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handicap golfer and and straighten those

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arms he would tend to hit lots of pull

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hooks but because he has this stronger

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grip that allows him to rotate his body

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which allows him to hit the ball earlier

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on the ark which prevents him from

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closing the clubface so he needs that

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either strong grip or more of the shaft

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rotation which I called a motorcycle

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movement in order to balance out getting

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that body well open the way that you'll

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see it from the down line is even though

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he has that strong grip you can see that

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when he gets towards waist height

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because his body is so open in the club

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is behind him those both open the

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clubface and you can see that at this

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roughly shaft or parallel position you

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can see the clubface is pretty close to

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a vertical there's kind of a narrow

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window of having the club somewhere

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around vertical to just pass vertical

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and as long as you match up how your

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arms and hands are working with your

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body to create that clubface alignment

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you should have a reasonable chance of

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striking the ball solidly the advantage

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to using either more of this shaft

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rotation or having a stronger grip is

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that JB is able to use his body

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movements to help create a better launch

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characteristics when it comes to the

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long swing like the driver of the 3-wood

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which helps him maximize his 122 mile an

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hour club head speed and typically be

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near the top of the field in strokes

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gained if you really want to hit the

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ball far I'm going to pass on one piece

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of advice from JB himself which I've

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heard many long drivers talk about at

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some point during their career I used to

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swing really hard I don't swing very

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hard anymore I got I got pictures of me

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when I was younger at impact for both my

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feet is just far off the ground I'm off

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the ground

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I'm swinging so hard I'm jumping at the

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ball so to keep up with other players

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and I think that's a good thing to teach

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younger players now to go ahead and and

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just give a rip you know right now you

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can let them swing hard let them let

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them do that

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cuz you can always back off and if

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you're taught to swing real smooth and

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and and and everything like that it's

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just harder to gear up you see those

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people just grew up like that they can't

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really gear up but somebody that grew up

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swinging as hard as they can can

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definitely gear down so hopefully this

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video helped you understand better how

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to create this look over here if you

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want to swing hard if you want to have

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leg you have to find a way to get the

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club a little bit more behind you so

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that you can use your body rotationally

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if you get the club behind you and you

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tend to block the ball off to the right

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then you know that it's more of a

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clubface squaring issue if you're not

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quite sure what's going on with your

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swing or you just want to understand it

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release and how they relate to both

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speed and consistency