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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at the swing of JB homes.

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Now JB homes is consistently in the top of the stroke skein off the T category.

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And even though he has the look of a shorter swing, he's consistently in the

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top of the

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clubhead speed ranking as well.

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In this video, we're going to discuss lag and how it relates to driving

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distance.

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By understanding how to create the look of lag, hopefully you'll spend your

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time practicing

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things that will actually improve your driving performance.

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Let's take a look at JB homes swing starting from the top of the backswing.

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So at the top of the backswing, we can see that even though he doesn't have a

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classically

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full wrist set, you can see that he's got a big coil with his upper and lower

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body.

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So pretty good full rotation while maintaining his his tilts and angles.

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So he's in position to use his body really well, and you'll see that during

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transition,

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he does a great job of starting with his lower body and his core, and you'll

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see that his

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arms during that phase are going to shallow beautifully.

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He does a great job of getting that right elbow working back in front of his

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body in

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the club, shallowing out during transition.

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Now, as we get him down towards waist height or so, or roughly when the shaft

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is pretty

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close to parallel, you can see that he still has the look of keeping some lag,

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but we know

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that at the top of the swing, he didn't have a tremendous amount of hinge.

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So the question is, what gives this look of lag and how does that relate to

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creating

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122 mile an hour club at speed like the guys who bomb it like JB homes?

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That's what we'll spend the rest of this video looking at, and we're going to

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bring

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up a few interesting camera angles and some weird examples to compare.

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If you're used to thinking of lag as just the angle between the shaft and the

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forearm

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from the face on camera angle, hopefully this video changes the way you look at

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it, because

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if you looked at it that way, you would probably decide that if you want to get

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more lag, you

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need to just hinge your wrist more, and what I've seen on 3D is that wrist

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hinge has very

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little to do with the appearance of lag.

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Here we have Corey Paven, who's known to be one of the shorter hitters on tour,

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and he's

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hitting a pitch shot, and you'll see that there's a similar angle or amount of

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lag between

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his club shaft and forearm.

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So this is a kind of hyperbolic example to show that it's not just the amount

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or the

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angle that's going to produce this look of lag.

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You can see that, or rather, even if you have that look of lag, that's not what

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's going

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to create the club as beat, so there might be different ways of creating this

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look of

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lag.

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In other videos, I've talked about how there are actually two different ways

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you can look

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at lag just from the wrist perspective.

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I also like to look at lag as a sequencing trait, because the more that you get

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your

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body involved, the more that it's going to encourage this look of lag, and that

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's where

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Corey Paven tends to fall a little bit short.

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The other, there are two ways to look at specifically the wrist lag.

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One would be hinging the club straight up and down, like using a hammer, and

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one would

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be rotating the forearm so that the club is more behind your body.

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Let's look at JB Swing from an overhead camera view to take a look at how he

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maximizes the

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rotational lag, even if he doesn't do a great job of maximizing the vertical

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lag, and it's

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that rotational lag that really allows you to use your body more effectively

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for creating

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speed.

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We saw from the face on camera that at this position he had a decent look of

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lag.

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Now what we'll see from looking at it from overhead is that if we start to get

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back down

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towards that same position, we're going to see how well he keeps the club

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behind his

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body, which is another source or another way of looking at lag.

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So from the overhead view, you can get a really good look at where his chest is

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pointing or

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where his sternum is pointing, and where the club shaft is in relation to that.

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So now as we get back down to, this would probably be pretty close to the same

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position.

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You can see that the angle of his pelvis, the angle of his chest, his chest is

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pointing

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somewhere out pretty close to the golf ball.

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We can see from here, if anything, it's pointing maybe even a little bit ahead

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of that.

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You can see that the club is well behind.

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When he starts getting down towards impact, you can see his chest is on an

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angle.

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We'll do it the same way where it's kind of more perpendicular.

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You can see that the club shaft is still pretty close to almost parallel to his

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chest.

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That's another way and another form of looking at lag, and what you'll see when

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he does that

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is that the club head doesn't actually pass his chest until late in the follow

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through.

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So the club head is not passing his chest until somewhere in through there.

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It's another way of looking at lag, and what it does is it means that you're

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using your

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body to get that, your arms and your hands in position.

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So it's delaying the timing of getting your arms and hands active.

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That's another way of looking at lag and probably more relevant for how we want

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to create club

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at speed than just looking at the vertical hinge.

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For comparison's sake, I've got a higher handicap golfer over here on the left.

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Now if you watch when I bring him down, you can see that the club is already

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getting back

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out in front of his body.

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If we were looking at JB Holmes, it would have been probably closer to an angle

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like this

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in relation to the torso, and he would have his hips and torso more open, which

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would

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get the club in a similar looking position.

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So if we get this higher handicap golfer down to about the same amount, you can

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see that

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JB's chest is pointing well out in front of the golf ball, and the shaft is

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roughly perpendicular

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to that.

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Here you can see that his chest is pointing roughly at the golf ball, and there

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's not

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nearly as much of an angle there.

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So this is another way to look at the perspective of lag.

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Now I do a talk on the KVEST level 2 certification, where I talk about barriers

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to a good kinematic

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sequence.

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So the next thing we'll look at is how the grip and club face position relate

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to this

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ability to create this rotational lag.

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Now from the face on camera, we can see that JB has a bit of a strong grip

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where the visor

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pointing somewhere outside of his right shoulder, and we'll see that if he was

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to have his body

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in the position of that higher handicap golfer and straighten those arms, he

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would tend

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to hit lots of pull hooks.

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But because he has this stronger grip, that allows him to rotate his body,

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which allows

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him to hit the ball earlier on the arc, which prevents him from closing the

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club face.

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So he needs that either strong grip or more of the shaft rotation, which I call

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the motorcycle

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movement, in order to balance out getting that body well open.

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The way that you'll see it from the down the line is even though he has that

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strong grip,

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you can see that when he gets towards waist height, because his body is so open

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and the

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club is behind him, those both open the club face, and you can see that at this

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roughly

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shaft or parallel position, you can see the club face is pretty close to the

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vertical.

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There's kind of a narrow window of having the club somewhere around vertical to

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just

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pass vertical, and as long as you match up how your arms and hands are working

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with your

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body to create that club face alignment, you should have a reasonable chance of

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striking

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the ball solidly.

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The advantage to using either more of this shaft rotation or having a stronger

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grip is

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that JB is able to use his body movements to help create better launch

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characteristics

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when it comes to the long swing like the driver of the three wood, which helps

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him maximize

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his 122 mile an hour club head speed, and typically be near the top of the

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field in

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strokes gained.

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Now if you really want to hit the ball far, I'm going to pass on one piece of

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advice from

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JB himself, which I've heard many long drivers talk about at some point during

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their career.

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I used to swing really hard.

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I don't swing very hard anymore, I got pictures of me when I was younger at

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impact for both

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my feet.

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On your toes?

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This far off the ground.

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I'm off the ground.

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I'm swinging so hard that I'm jumping at the ball, so to keep up with other

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players,

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and I think that's a good thing to teach younger players now, to go ahead and

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just give a

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rip.

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Right now you can let them swing hard, let them do that because you can always

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back off,

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and if you're taught to swing real smooth, and everything like that, it's just

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harder

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to gear up.

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You see those people who grew up like that, they can't really gear up, but

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somebody that

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grew up swinging as hard as they can can definitely gear down.

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So hopefully this video helped you understand better how to create this look

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over here.

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If you want to swing hard, if you want to have lag, you have to find a way to

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get the

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club a little bit more behind you so that you can use your body rotationally.

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If you get the club behind you and you tend to block the ball off to the right,

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then you

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know that it's more of a clubface-squaring issue.

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If you're not quite sure what's going on with your swing, or you just want to

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