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In this concept video we're gonna go over troubleshooting transition. Now

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transition as we discussed is when you blend from setting the club getting

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down towards the golf bar, how we first start to apply force in the direction

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of

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the golf ball or in the direction of the target. I had a student who once told

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I should write a book called Lost in Transition because I really believe that

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about 90% of swing issues manifest themselves as transition errors. I do

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believe that a lot of them are release errors and they just you start it in

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transition but this transition is so important that if you're doing it

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incorrectly you're pretty much always gonna struggle and if you're doing it

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really well you're probably not gonna have real big highs and lows with your

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game, at least not more than what the average tour pro is struggling with. So

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the troubleshooting and the problems I see in transition are roughly the

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opposite of what a good transition would be. So the first one would be we know

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in

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transition we want to get our weight into that left leg. Well one of the most

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common errors is to become more of an upper body spinner as opposed to this

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weight shift into that left leg. So the upper body spin would basically be from

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the top of the swing, the left shoulder and the right shoulder kind of go like

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this as my major power source. It uses a lot of your big muscles of your core,

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it

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uses your shoulders, it uses your back and so for athletes coming from other

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sports or for people who have the club in a pretty weak position this can feel

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very very powerful. The problem is it's not very mechanically efficient. It's

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about the difference between if I was throwing a baseball which they can throw

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100 miles an hour or if I was doing a shot put which I would wager to bed

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doesn't get anywhere up above 40 miles an hour. I know softball underhand pitch

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is about 65 so I'm guessing the shot put is way less. I'll see if I can put it

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in

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the notes section. But anyway getting back to this upper body spin there's two

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major components to it. One would be that left shoulder pulling getting the

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club

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going like so and two what usually happens when that left shoulder starts

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pulling is that right arm starts pushing. Those are the two biggest and most

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common errors that I see in transition. Upper body spinning without having that

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weight shift. Two would be the right arm straightening. So a lot of people talk

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about the cast being a movement like so like I'm casting a fishing rod. What's

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really happening in a cast it has nothing to do with the wrist unhinging it

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really

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has to do with the wrist flexing or going like this and the tricep straight

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ening or

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the right arm straightening like so. This is a cast movement. So someone who

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does

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that will get up to the top of the swing and spin and straighten that right arm

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and they'll look kind of like this as they get to impact. It all started

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because

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they didn't keep that left shoulder down as they got into that left side. They

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never got into that left side. The second major issue that I see is standing up

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straight from the top of the swing or something that we call early extension.

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So if you get to the top of the swing and you're pretty good position and

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then that left shoulder it doesn't spin but that left shoulder goes up and

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those

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hips start going in towards the golf ball. This is a good player problem

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because it gets the club swinging very much into out and it uses my body to

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kind of control the rate of which my arm my club is swinging. So a lot of good

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players have used it and it ends up developing this pattern of too much in

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out so I hit blocks and big hooks and have contact issues with my irons because

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when that left shoulder gets up I'm now too far away to really compress the

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golf ball so I end up looking something like this in at impact. Where that one

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tends to come up is it shows up in transition I start coming up like so but

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it's really a problem with not understanding the release or creating

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speed with my lower body more in the direction of the golf ball instead of

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in the direction of the target and then away from the target. So there's only a

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handful of errors in transition and it's one of the most important pieces but

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these errors are built around triggers and power sources and so they can be

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relatively tricky to train. So I got a lot of drills in transition to help you

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understand how to get away from spinning or early extending and how to become

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more of a compress against the ground and get ready for that great release

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movement which is what we'll talk about in the last section.