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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at Sergio Garcia.

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Now, Sergio Garcia is known as a great ball striker on tour, and his swing is

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characterized

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by the incredible narrowing of the arms during transition, or the club to the

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arms during

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transition.

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We're going to take a look at a couple other key moves that I think make his

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swing work,

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as well as what makes it different from those he's often compared to, such as

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Ben Hogan.

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So the first move we want to look at is the narrowing or the hinging of the

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wrist in transition.

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So every swing vision I've seen or was able to download, highlights how narrow

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this angle

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gets right there and how it keeps decreasing.

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I'm going to show you that some of that is some is a result of more what his

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upper body

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is doing and the shallowing moves that he use, as opposed to an actual

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anatomical change.

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When we look at hinging of the wrist, as if you were using a hammer, the

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anatomical normal

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is about 25 degrees.

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So from this point of view, if there's 90 degrees, it's not quite, but it looks

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like he's hinging

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his wrist about 45 degrees, which would be double what all the physical therapy

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books

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would say is anatomical normal.

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So if we look from this obscure view or from the overhead from behind, if we

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get him down

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to about the same position, you can see that that left arm is kind of in that

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range and

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this is, it's definitely less than 90 degrees, but nowhere near this 40 degree

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angle that

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we're getting from the face on view.

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So part of it is this optical illusion that he's really hinging his wrist.

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Where that optical illusion comes from is more of the flattening of the move or

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the rotation

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of the forearms combined with the fact that his upper body or his thorax is

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still pointing

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well behind the golf ball.

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So over on the right, we have John Sendon.

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John Sendon is another golfer who doesn't rotate his upper body in his

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transition.

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And so as a result, it will give the appearance of an extremely narrow or

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extremely rehinged

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wrist movement in transition.

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So for example, here we have Jason Day, and you'll see that this whole unit is

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going to

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rotate as a result of the thorax rotating here in transition.

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If we compare that or if we imagine how we could kind of switch bodies, if we

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go up to

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the top of the swing here with Sergio, you'll see that his chest stays pointing

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over here

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and his arms pull down while his wrists flatten.

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That gives the appearance of a much greater angle than if everything was to

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rotate together.

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He's over here, Jason Day has his wrist hinge, probably not quite as much as

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Sergio.

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Sergio with his wrist movement would probably look similar over like this.

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On the same kind of comparison, if we were to take Jason Day with his upper

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body rotating

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a little bit more through transition and put his wrist over on Sergio, they

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would probably

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look something more like that.

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So if you want to give the appearance that you're really rehinging your wrist

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in transition,

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try to keep your chest facing away from the target longer, that will help take

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away some

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of the slack through that lead arm, which will maximize how much wrist hinge

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you can

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create.

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It will also give a little bit of an optical illusion that you're creating more

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than is

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humanly possible.

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So now that we've discussed the hinging of the wrist, let's take a look at what

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I think

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is more unique in Sergio swing, which is looking at his body pivot as it

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relates to this arm

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movement.

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So you'll see during the backswing, he's one of the few golfers who gets onto

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the outside

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of his foot because you can see the inside of his foot rolling there.

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And you'll see that he gets towards the outside of his foot and there's a lot

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more knee action.

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Then as he starts down, you'll see that there's a good amount of rotational

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movement, but

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there's not very much side bend as in it's almost as if he's staying very

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vertical with

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his pelvis or underneath the thorax or kind of creating an axis like this and

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he's spinning

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around it with his lower body and legs.

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While he's doing that, he's pulling down with his arms in order to create some

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power.

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So if he was to use more of say adjacent day arm movement, he would be very

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steep.

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So that arm dropping and extreme forearm rotation is going to shallow the club,

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which balances

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out that steeper body movement than what we would typically see on tour.

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The other thing is as a result of being in this steep position, he will tend to

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have

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a very late, shallowing move as in you'll see that from as he goes into the

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release compared

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to most, he'll have an even more pronounced amount of side bend through the

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release because

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he didn't have any of it happening during the end of transition.

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So very few amateur golfers would be able to handle that much late side bend

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and having

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it struggle with having the arms in this steeper position.

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So from the down the line, what I mean is typically once an amateur golfer

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started that

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tumble move, they would tend to rehinge the wrist and the club would continue

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working

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very much to the left.

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But because Sergio imparts this late, shallow body movement, that gives him a

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very classic

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looking kind of finished position right out in there.

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So very few amateurs would be able to make that transition.

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It's very much a body controlled release style.

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And he does a great job with it and has become one of the best ball strikers on

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tour, and

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he's frequently compared to Ben Hogan.

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What we're going to do now is let's look at Ben Hogan's movements and compare

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them to

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Sergio so that you can see that while there is a similarity in the narrowing

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movement of

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the arms, that's pretty much where the similarities end when you're comparing

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those two swings.

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Okay, so just so we can have a fresh image in our mind of what we're comparing

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with Sergio,

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there's that kind of narrowing movement of the arms, if we were to take Ben

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Hogan, you'll

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see he has that similar look of very narrow arms, and that look is created

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mostly because

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of this forearm rotation, where basically you can see Sergio is one of the more

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extreme

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in the fact that you can see his hands at this point already pointing up

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towards the

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sky, Ben Hogan's kind of in that same category, which gives the look of an

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increased hinge

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in that angle.

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Now if we were to run through or scrub through his transition, you'll see Ben

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Hogan had a

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very pronounced lower body shift and rotation, and you'll see that he controls

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a lot of his

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swing with his hips.

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If we look at his right foot, you'll see that he does not get to the outside of

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the foot,

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he does a great job of pushing off the inside, and then through the release,

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you'll see that

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continued side bend and rotation happening at the pelvis.

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So because he has more of this side bend accomplished through transition, you

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'll see that Ben Hogan

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still braces and his upper body goes back some, but nowhere near the same

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amount that

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Sergio Garcia did during his release.

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So Sergio is powering more with this rotational movement of the knees and feet,

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not quite as

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much at the hips, as a result, his upper body is more on top of the lower body,

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you'll

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see that he doesn't have nearly as much side bend when the hands are about hip

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height.

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And then as a result, he has to side bend late as his arms complete their

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release.

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So the body pivots and the release styles and the transition powering are very

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different

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between these two golfers, the only similarity is that form flattening movement

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, but I think

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there could be some better comparisons between someone like Sergio Garcia and

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someone like

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John Sendon, then between Sergio Garcia and someone like Ben Hogan.

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