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This video is take away through the ground. So when you're working on your

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takeaway, it's very common to get upper body dominant. It's very common to get

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kind of position dominant. And then what happens is when you start trying to

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make

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an actual swing, your brain starts using your body. So you want to make sure

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that

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when you're training your takeaway, you're connecting it to your power source.

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So

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looking at the takeaway path, if you're getting the club coming way inside or

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way outside, the the ideal is we're going to try to get it somewhat balanced or

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closer to on plane, right? So if I take an alignment stick and just kind of use

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it as a little bit of a visual guide, when I have my takeaway movement, I want

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to

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have the club roughly in line with this parallel to the target line, right?

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When I

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get to the about shaft parallel. That's a good sign that I've used good kind of

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body pivot. My shoulder plane has been pretty good. I haven't stood up on my

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posture and I haven't dominated the takeaway with my arms. But what happens

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is a lot of golfers tend to practice this movement and they kind of do them

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like this. And then what'll happen is they'll start to take the swing and it'll

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look more like that. And they'll say, well, I'm doing these great looking

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takeaway

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moves and then all of a sudden when I step up to the ball, it doesn't work. And

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what you'll see is that during the takeaway for proper initiation, I'm going

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to, whether I feel it or not, I'm going to push a little bit with my front foot

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and

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use my lower body and my core to help swing start the club swinging back. So if

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I'm doing my takeaway movements and my lower body is doing nothing, that would

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look kind of like so. And then if I did that same movement but now added

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hip rotation, you can see that my takeaway is now well to the inside. So when

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you're practicing the takeaway movements, you want to make sure that you're

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connecting what your arms and your hands are doing to the lower body. So

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connecting it to that power source. Once you're comfortable with doing that,

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then you can go ahead and take reps with some type of feedback, whether it's

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just an alignment stick or just a position, whether you're a foam noodle,

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something of that sort. So in the rest of this video, I'm going to walk you

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through an example of a golfer who struggled with this so you can kind of

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visualize what it might look like if that's something that you battle in your

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own swing. Okay, so here we have a golfer working on the takeaway, kind of at

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the

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beginning of the lesson. You'll see he's making these movements, but it appears

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that all of his focus is in what the arms are doing and there's not a whole

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lot of connection to the lower body. So then what happens is when he actually

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sets up to swing out the golf ball, you'll see now his lower body has a lot

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more

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activity and so that tends to make the club come inside. So here he is after a

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number of reps working on a takeaway, but now feeling, you can see as he's

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exaggerating the arm movement, he's really feeling the connection of his

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lower body to the movement. And so then when he makes that same kind of lower

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body movement that he made in the early session, now it's connected to where

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the

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club wants to go and so he's doing a little bit more of a one-piece takeaway.

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Now the club-based position is more a reflection of what he's specifically

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working on with his game and where he is at his level, but what I really wanted

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you to see was how integrating the lower body into takeaway drills can help you

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when you go from the practice station to actually hitting a live ball.