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In this concept video, we're going to go over troubleshooting the common set up

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errors.

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Now there's really four or five major errors that I tend to see with set up,

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both with

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my students as well as with your video submissions.

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So the first one would be bending from the spine instead of bending from the

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hips or

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bending from the knees instead of bending from the hips.

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So if we remember from the drill videos, if we remember from the concept video,

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essentially

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to get down to the golf ball, we need to bend from the hips.

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Now even if you're trying to bend from the hips, what can often happen is you

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will bend

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more from the spine like so, the spine like so, or the knees like so.

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All of those are going to put you in a bi-mechanically disadvantageous position

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because they're going

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to inhibit how much you're actually going to be able to use your hip muscles or

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the

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muscles around your hips.

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So let's go through those one by one.

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First one is going to be seaposter.

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What you're basically going to do is you're rounding from your mid-back as you

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go down

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to the ground, right?

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So what you want to pay attention to is you want to practice one of the drills

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that gives

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you feedback with either a club along your back or along your front so that you

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can make

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sure that your spine stays pretty long.

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Now it's okay to have your neck and your very upper shoulders kind of round

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down to

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look down at the golf ball, but you don't want to have a major rounding of your

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spine.

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If you're seated, you can do this little experiment and you can figure out why.

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So if you're seated and you take a club and place it across your shoulders and

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then you

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were to turn your upper body while staying nice and tall, you can feel how much

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your

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ribcage and your mid-back moves.

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Now if you were to then slouch and go ahead and try and rotate, I'll let you do

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it first.

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You feel that?

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It definitely shortens and makes rotation much more difficult.

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So what ends up happening is when you set up more in this posture, your

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takeaway is going

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to tend to be more with your arms, which when we get to that section, you'll

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learn that

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that can mess up your sequencing.

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So we want to make sure that we're keeping that mid-back a little bit more

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straight so

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that it sets you up for a good takeaway position, which you'll learn how to do

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in the other

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videos.

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The next one would be S-poster, which would be rounding more your lower back

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like so.

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Now because I've really arched my lower back like so, this is that old athletic

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posture,

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like if I was going to do a deadlift or if I was going to sprint, but it doesn

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't set

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me up very well for my hips to rotate.

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And the other thing is you can see how that lifts my chest way up, right?

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So now I'm no closer to the golf ball, so the second part of S-poster is

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typically I end

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up rounding my spine.

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So it creates this kind of S-curve to your back and again, messes up your

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ability to

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rotate both with your upper body as well as your hips.

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When you set up an S-poster, it inhibits a couple of your glute muscles, which

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will

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make it more likely for you to have a little bit extra kind of lateral movement

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as opposed

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to if you have your lower core muscles on because your back is nice and flat

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when you

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go into your takeaway.

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So last little piece to that is the amount of knee bend.

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And again, if I was to bend from my hips, just like so, there's my setup

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posture.

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Now if I was to also bend from my knees, I'd be way too close to the ground.

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So what usually ends up happening is I bend from my knees and then my posture

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is very

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vertical, kind of like so.

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Yes, my weight is somewhat in my heels, but again, my hips have now gotten into

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a position

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where it's tough for them to rotate.

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A fun little experiment you can do for that is if you stick your foot out, you

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can feel

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how much your hip rotates like so.

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If you were to bring this hip way up and then try and rotate, you'll feel how

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some of the

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rotation has been lost.

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The more that you sit into your knees, the more that it can inhibit how much

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hip rotation

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you're going to get.

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It's not a great example, but just know more knees, less hips.

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So that would be the major setup posture ones.

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The second piece would be setting up with your arms to tense or too straight.

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So what'll happen is most golfers are going to have, if you remember from the

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arm bend,

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they're going to have a little bit more flex in the trail or right arm for

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right handers.

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They're going to have a little bit more flex in this arm compared to this one.

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This sets the arm up to rotate in the backswing and bring the club around your

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body.

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When your arm gets too straight like so, it'll do two things.

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It'll mess up your shoulder alignment and it will tend to make the club either

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come

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away very shut if I did kind of a body driven takeaway or it'll cause me to fan

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the club

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more with the wrist and forearms or open the club with the wrist and forearms a

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little

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bit too soon.

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So if those arms are too straight, it's a good indication that you have tension

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kind

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of in your neck and your whole plan is to kill the ball with your arms.

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You want your arms to be relatively relaxed or like ropes because the engine is

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going

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to come from the body as you'll learn in the movement layers.

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Third, which kind of goes a little bit with the tension in the arms is having

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the club

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too much in the palm.

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Now this also works with the whole setup posture thing because if the club is

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too high up in

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the palm like so, you'll tend to get a wear spot in the heel of your hand right

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in there

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and maybe even on your right thumb but you'll tend to get a wear spot in the

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heel of the

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hand there.

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That's a big indicator that you are up too much in the heel of your or you're

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too much

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in the palm of your lead hand.

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What that does is that prevents wrist movement as you learn in the grip video.

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So if that locks your wrist, then you're going to have to make adjustments with

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your

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elbows with your shoulders in order to do what the wrist should be doing.

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One of the common reasons that people end up gripping the club more in the hand

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is if

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their setup posture is poor.

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If I was sitting more in my knees with kind of a C posture or an S posture

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where my chest

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is relatively vertical and I don't have a ton of this spine bend or hip bend,

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it will

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tend to put the club more high up compared to my arms.

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If I was to try and get it in the fingers, this would feel very, very

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uncomfortable where

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if I hinged from the hips, now it puts the club a little bit more underneath my

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left

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arm or my left hand which allows me to grip it in the fingers much more easily.

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So if you have a tendency of having that club slip up, double check your

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posture.

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Those two go hand in hand, no pun intended.

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The last one would be alignment.

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And this one is very hard to see just based on the videos that you send in

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because I ask

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you to put alignment stick on the ground so I trust that that's pretty reliable

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The problem can be when you get on on the course and you tell me that most of

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your shots

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or slices or blocks off to the right, I kind of interpret those that those are

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actually

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the same.

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What ends up happening is if you're not going through a clear pre-shot routine

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and if your

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upper body tends to get a little bit more on top of it like so, it could be an

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eye-related

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thing, it could just be a habit thing that it doesn't feel comfortable, and it

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could

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just mean that you need to practice some of these nine to three drills with an

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alignment

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stick on the ground so that you can pay a little bit more attention.

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So those are the big setup errors.

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If I've highlighted them, we've got drills in the drill section that will help

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you correct

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them.

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So go ahead and review your notes and good luck with your next practice session

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