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In this analysis video, we're going to look at the transition, and I've said

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many times

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that transition is one of the key movements to the golf swing, and where a lot

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of problems

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seem to start manifesting themselves.

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So transition is roughly going to be from when you've set the club until you

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get to

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the release.

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So it'll roughly be the first stage of the downswing right up until about here.

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Sometimes it's going to be a little bit different as to when they start the

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release.

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So transition timing will be a little bit different for everyone, but right

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around here when that

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right arm starts to straighten is roughly when transition ends.

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So it seems like it's a very short period of time, but there's a lot of key

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movements

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that are happening in this transition.

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In keeping with our theme, the first thing we'll talk about is what the body is

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doing

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during transition, and then the second thing we'll talk about is what the arms

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are doing

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transition.

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During transition, we are essentially loading the body for the release.

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So the first thing that we're going to look at is getting the weight into the

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left foot.

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Then we're going to look at getting that left shoulder down as well as getting

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the chest

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down.

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Now first let's look at getting into that left side or getting into that left

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foot.

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So here on the left we have Keegan Bradley, and I'm just going to draw a line

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vertically

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up from kind of the outside of his arch.

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Now you'll see that the first movement that he's going to do, if it's a decent

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camera

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angle, is get his left hip over close to that line.

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Some golfers will actually get past that line, but here Keegan does a pretty

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good job of getting

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up close to it.

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On the right here we have Zach Johnson, and while the line moved a little bit

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just from

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the camera angle, you'll see that during that transition phase he gets his left

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hip over

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on top of his left foot.

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Now you'll notice that as I talk about the transition phase, both Keegan and

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Zach and

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the other examples I'll show are getting their lower body up over that line

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roughly

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about the time the left arm is parallel to the ground.

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That's essentially the same thing as the step into the pitch that you would see

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in any good

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throwing motion, and so it's important that this weight shift happens

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relatively quickly.

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Now here's Justin Rose, and if we look on the left we can see him with an iron,

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and you

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can see there's that lateral movement as he begins to rotate, and then by the

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time that

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left arm is parallel to the ground, there's the vertical line, and if you

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remember from

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my Finding Your Hips video, the hip is roughly going to be about where that

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first belt loop

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is, so you'll see in both of these examples he is roughly getting that belt

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loop over

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the ankle early in the downswing, and the key thing there is that it's

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happening early,

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and then it will stabilize there as he goes into the release.

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Now here we have a couple amateurs, and we'll demonstrate different ways that

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we could have

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trouble with this part of the transition, so you can see the golfer on the left

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basically

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never really gets that belt loop on top of his ankle, he shifts a little bit,

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but most

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of his weight stays back on that right foot, and then you'll see as he comes

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through impact,

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not to foreshadow, but because it was way on that back foot you can see the

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golf ball

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still on the screen when it should be long gone.

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Over here on the right, you'll see a golfer who's getting more of the weight

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shift with

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his upper body, you can see how his upper body and his lower body are almost

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right on top

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of each other, and his lower body is getting over onto his left side relatively

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slowly,

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so you can see it takes his entire downswing for his hip to get on top of the

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ankle, where

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it was clear with those professionals that they were getting over there during

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one of

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the very first movements.

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Now the next piece that we're going to look at is getting the chest down or the

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left shoulder

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side bending during transition.

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So over here on the left, while not a tour pro, he's a very good ball striker

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and a professional

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in Maryland, but it's a unique camera angle, so I wanted to show it so that you

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can clearly

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see that as the club starts down, you can watch that left shoulder get a little

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bit

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lower.

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I will put a little line there just so you can see, and you can see during

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transition

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right there.

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Very, very subtle, but helps load and compress against the ground before he's

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going to do

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his powerful movements during release.

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If you're looking from the more traditional behind the golfer, the way we see

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over here

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on Macroy or the down the line, you will see that left shoulder drop down and

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the head drop down a little bit as well.

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That's an indication that he's getting left side bend because we are currently

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looking

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straight at his chest.

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So it can feel a little weird.

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That's why we have a handful of drills to help you understand what it really

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means to

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do this little left side bend because it's going to feel weird because your

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spine is

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twisted when you're doing it.

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It is critical for properly creating the platform to then push off of during

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release.

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Now, I'll show you a couple more examples.

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Over here on the left, we've got Tiger Woods doing a more traditional approach,

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and you'll

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see clearly during that transition phase that left shoulder is dropping down.

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This is a left side bend and helps get the chest lower, which prepares for the

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release.

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We'll talk about that in the release video.

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Here you've got a little less traditional backswing with Tommy Gainey, but you

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'll still

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see that movement of dropping during transition and getting that left shoulder

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coming down.

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Now here are a couple amateurs that will help us demonstrate the opposite.

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So here's a student here on the left, and as we get to the top of the swing, if

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you pay

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attention to that left shoulder, you'll see that as she starts down, it pretty

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much appears

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like it stays the same height, or if anything, it ends up going up.

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I can tell you from 3D that it actually goes up a little bit.

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All right, so, and then over here on the right, we'll look at a similar pattern

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So as we go up towards the top of the swing, we're watching that left shoulder

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and head,

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and you'll see it move back in a way and up, as opposed to going down the way

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that we were

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seeing with some of those tour pros.

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Now let's take a look at the arms during the transition phase.

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So the arms in the club, or the arms in the hands, have one primary role.

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They're going to get in close, close to the body, kind of like a figure skater

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getting

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ready to spin, so that the body can rotate and transfer the speed effectively,

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and then

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the arms will be in position to release all that energy during the release, or

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transfer

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all that energy during the release.

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Now there's a few movements that are going to make this a little bit easier.

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One, the right elbow is going to bend a little bit more and work in front of

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your chest.

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Two, the left wrist is going to slightly flatten, or flex, and the right wrist

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is going to cup

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or extend, and then three, your left arm, the arms are going to flatten the

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club, and I'll

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talk a lot about that in this section of the video.

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By flattening the club, I mean the left arm is going to be pronating and the

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right arm

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is going to be supinating.

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That means that the right arm would be rotating so that the palm would be

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facing up and the

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left arm would be rotating so that the palm would be facing down.

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Instead of talking about each move individually, let's talk about them kind of

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together in

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a global sense.

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For some reason, it can be much easier to understand transition if we look at

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the midway

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point between transition and release, which I refer to as the delivery position

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In this delivery position, which I talk about in the delivery position drill,

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you'll see

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that a few things have happened.

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The hands are going to be pointing directly away from the chest, that means the

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back of

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the left hand is pointing away from the chest, and the palm of the right hand

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is pointing

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more or less away from the chest.

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Now this is different from where we would be here in the backswing.

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At this point in the backswing, you can see that the palms are not parallel to

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the chest.

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The chest is at an angle kind of like this, and the club is at an angle

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something like

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this.

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We can take a look at Tommy Gainey here.

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You can see that the hands in the backswing are at a different angle to the

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chest like

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Now as he goes up to the top of the swing, you'll see things flatten out to

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where they

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get both of them pretty much in the same alignment.

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Now it is very, very hard to see this movement on video because of a couple

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things.

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Then we have this single camera view that we're looking at, and two, the mov

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able structures

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of the left shoulder, protracting, sometimes shoving, but basically they make

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it hard to

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see the true alignment of the chest.

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That's why with 3D, we use a sensor that's on the thorax, and we look at the

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movement

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of the rib cage.

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Now let's isolate the flattening of the club, or the pronation of the left arm,

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supination

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of the right arm, for right hand and golfer.

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So here we have Tiger Woods.

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As we go up to the top of the swing, you'll see that even though the left

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shoulder is

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dropping down, which should steepen the path, you'll see that the club is

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coming down slightly

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flatter than it was on the backswing.

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Not everyone does it slightly flatter, I'll show a couple examples, but most of

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them do,

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and the way that they're doing it is by letting those arms drop, flatten, or

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feel like they're

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falling, which is a common phrase, which Tiger himself has said when he's

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playing well, tends

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to feel.

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So there's that little drop/flatten move.

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Here's Luke Donald on the right, and you'll see there's the angle between his

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hands and

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his chest, let me.

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So there's the angle between his hands and his chest, and you'll see that as he

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starts

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down, there's the little flatten move, and the hands are more approaching chest

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They will reach parallel to the chest, or even inside of it, when they get down

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shallower, as they get down to delivery position right in there.

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And now let's look at a few amateurs going through this same phase.

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So over here on the left, we have a higher handicap golfer, and you'll see in

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this position

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here, there's that different angle that we saw with those pro golfers we were

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just looking

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But as we start down, you'll see that instead of shallowing that club out, we

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will see that

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his hands are now vertical compared to his chest, so they've actually become st

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eeper.

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So he's doing the opposite motions with his forearms to what the examples of

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the tour

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pros I was showing you were.

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Now we really couldn't talk about steep and shallow without bringing in Charles

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Barkley,

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so you can see he brings it away into this backswing position on a similar

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angle to what

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those pros are talking about.

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He has lost his backswing posture, but no big deal.

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As he starts down, during his first pump anyway, you will see that compared to

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his chest, that

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shaft is practically vertical or practically perpendicular.

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So most pros are getting into a parallel position, which would be roughly

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having the shaft like

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this compared to his chest, but Charles does it his own way.

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And eventually he does release through, but he's releasing from an incredibly

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steep position

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and so he has to stand up to try to shallow it out last minute.

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Now here are two examples of steepening and shallowing in the wrong way.

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So over here on the left, we have an amateur golfer.

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As he goes to the top of the swing, you can see the difference between his

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chest and his

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where his hands are facing, you know, again, nothing, doesn't look out of the

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norm.

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That could potentially be a tour swing.

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But as we start down, you'll see that that left shoulder tends to come up

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pretty quickly

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and the hands, if you compared to where they were here in the backswing, have

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actually reached

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more of a steep position.

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So then he has to shallow the club out very, very late by doing a smaller

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version of the

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stand up move that Charles Barkley was doing.

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Over here on the right, we have a student of mine who does a similar movement.

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So here he is right here.

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You can see his chest and arms are roughly parallel with each other, which is

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exactly

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what we want to see on the downswing.

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What he ends up doing is he steepens, you can see right there, that his hands

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have steepened

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compared to where they were at this position here.

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But the shaft has flattened.

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He's done all of the flattening from losing that left side tilt and standing up

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.

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And so his release is going to be very, very steep while his body has created

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all of the

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shallows.

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I think it's very important that the body be more steep and the hands be more

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shallow

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for the majority of full swings.

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Now before I get an ambush of complaints, I do want to show that there are

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examples

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of golfers who do more of a steeper movement of their arms during a transition.

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And I've got two of them here, one's Jason Duffner and the other is Phil Mickel

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son.

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Now I would like to point out there in the vast minority.

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And the thing that we can't see here is if one arm is primarily controlling

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this movement

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or if they're both doing it.

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What I mean by that is, it is possible that the left arm could be trying to

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flatten, which

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we could see on 3D, while the right arm could be steepening.

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But either way, I did want to show you a couple examples.

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So here you can see in the backswing position, hands roughly parallel to the

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chest.

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And then as he starts down, hands are slightly steeper, maybe 10, 15 degrees or

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so.

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And so he ends up getting into delivery position, but with a little bit steeper

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shaft angle.

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Here we have Jason Duffner, again, hands are roughly parallel.

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And then as he starts down, you can see them just slightly steeper than where

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they were

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in the backswing.

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Now as a result of having them slightly seeped, you'll see during the release

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phase, his upper

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body tends to drift away from the golf ball, which is a shallowing-out move,

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but also a

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timing move.

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Phil kind of does the same thing.

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You'll see that upper body drifting slightly away, but not nearly as much.

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Next we'll take a look at the wrist setting move.

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So I've got a couple examples here.

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On the left, we have Zach Johnson, and on the right, we have Roy McRoy.

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And I'll show you an easy way that you can see it on video.

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So if we go through the takeaway, you can take a look at the angle between the

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left wrist

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and the left forearm.

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That is looked at as left wrist extension.

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You can see that Zach Johnson has a fair amount, I believe he's somewhere

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around 40 degrees

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or something like that.

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Now you can also see up at the top of the swing.

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There he has, let's say, 20 degrees or so.

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And then as he starts down, you'll see that he takes away a lot of it.

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When he gets back in this position here, if you look at his left wrist, you can

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see that

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it has a lot less of that extension position.

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And you can see that that right wrist has a fair amount of cupping.

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So that movement happens somewhere during this transition phase.

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Now if we look at Roy McRoy, we'll see, hopefully, something similar.

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So in this position here, you can see if you drew a line from his left forearm,

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there is

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definitely an angle, maybe 20 degrees, something like that.

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As he lets the club go up to the top of the swing, you'll start to see this

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movement because

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you can see right here he has still a little bit of cup in that left wrist.

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And then as he starts down, now that left wrist is pretty much flat.

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So he's done the movement I call or refer to as the motorcycle movement, which

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is basically

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a squaring or a closing of the club face with the hands as if you were rotating

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a screwdriver.

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When we get him down to this delivery position, you can see that if you drew a

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line straight

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off his forearm, there is a fair amount of angle there, maybe 20 degrees or so.

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So he's gone about 40 degrees different between his takeaway position and where

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he is on the

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hand.

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And now we have a couple examples of amateurs and we'll look at the same two

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pieces of information.

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So you can see here his wrist is pretty flat and as we go up towards the top of

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the swing,

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you'll see it pretty much maintains that position and as we come back down, it

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's pretty much

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in that same position there.

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So he has done very little with setting the wrist and you can see that that

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right wrist

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is pretty straight as well.

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So this will be a swing that will typically lack power and typically have

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trouble with

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getting divots and downward angle attack because his wrists are kind of already

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in a lengthened

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position.

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Here we have over on the left a very good solid amateur golfer, low handicap.

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He's got a little bit of a cup in his left wrist there and then about the same

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amount

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at the top of the swing.

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As we come back down, we can say this shaft is kind of shallowing out, but you

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can see

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that the wrist is essentially in the same position.

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We have a very limited amount of cup in that right wrist.

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So again, he's failed to set those wrists into a powerful position and so he's

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going

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to sacrifice a lot of his body speed because the hands aren't ready for what we

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would want

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to do during the release.

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And here we have two more amateur examples, different handicap levels, but so

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let's take

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a look at it right there.

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So here we have fairly straight, slight little cup, maybe 10, 15 degrees tops.

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And then as we come back down to that same position, you can see about the same

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, maybe

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a little bit less over here on the right.

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You'll see again, slight cup, maybe 10, 15 degrees.

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As we come back down, you can see about that same 10, 15 degrees.

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Now anytime that you haven't done this motorcycle move or you haven't flattened

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the left wrist

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and cupped the right wrist, it's going to limit how much your upper body is

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going to

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be able to rotate and it's going to eliminate or minimize how much speed you're

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going to

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be able to create.

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So let's take a look at this ability to rotate thing.

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So when we had the professionals up there, you would notice that their chest

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was pointed

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at the golf ball at this same hand position.

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So to show you what I mean, I brought Adam Scott over here on the left.

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So you can see that when the club is roughly in the same position compared to

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the golf

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ball, right?

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If I drew a little box there, you can see that his club is roughly parallel to

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the target

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and to the box.

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So is Adam.

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So their clubs are in identical positions more or less.

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If you were to then look at their body, you can see that his body is facing the

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golf ball.

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Chest pointed out like so, where this gentleman here, his chest is pointed more

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behind the

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golf ball.

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So if we did nothing but turn his body, that would move the club even steeper.

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So if you don't do this motorcycle move, if you don't have this cup in the

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right wrist

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and flattening or flexing of the left wrist, then it's going to limit how much

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you can

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turn your body, which is a limitation on both power and consistency.

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So I know that that is a lot to think about, which is why I've broken it down

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into these

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individual movements and giving you drills that you can use to practice them

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and train

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them because there's no way you can think about all this during the subtle

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movement as you

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finish your backswing and get into this delivery position.

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But you can train it so that it happens automatically with proper repetitions

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and proper focus.

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So focus on one piece of the time as you're training this.

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And then when you feel like you have a pretty good understanding, not mastery,

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but a pretty

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good understanding, you can move on to adding the next piece.

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But know that once you have all these pieces in play, you'll have what it takes

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to be in

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position for a very powerful and efficient release.