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And this golf smart insight, we're going to talk about supination.

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So there's been a lot of talk in the Facebook chat rooms about the importance

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of supination.

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And so I thought I'd make a quick video to kind of help clarify what the heck

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we're talking

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about when we're talking about supination.

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So as an easy 3D, I've got some pins rubber banded to my forearm.

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So I kind of look like so.

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Now if I have my arm straight out in front of me or off to my side, this is

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essentially

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where we digitize when we are looking at 3D graphs of supination.

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Now you can see that these two pins are roughly parallel to each other.

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This would be my neutral.

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So when I supinate, I'm going to have the black pen or my wrist pen pointed off

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to

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the right of the red pen or my elbow pen.

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This is supination.

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If I was to rotate palm down, just like so, the black pen is pointing off to

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the left

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of my red pen from my perspective, this would be pronation.

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So any time the black pen is pointed to the right of the red pen, that's going

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to be supination.

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Which means this is open chain, I could also do this.

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So if I do that, the black pen is now pointing to the right of the red pen.

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I just supinated about the same amount as when I did it here.

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So that's close chain supination, that's close chain pronation where basically

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my wrist

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is not moving and my elbow is.

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So it's not quite as easy as it appears because you have to look at where the

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elbow and the

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wrist are in relationship to each other to see how much supination has happened

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So now let's go through some of the actual in golf positions.

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So if I was to get into my setup position, which looks something like this, you

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can see

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that the black pen is slightly to the right, so I'm slightly supinated in my

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setup position.

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And then I go up to the top of the swing, you can turn it right there and you

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can see that

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the black pen is to the left of this.

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So I've pronated probably about 40 degrees or so, I don't have a ton.

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Now I'm going to go down towards what I consider delivery position.

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And if I bring this back up, you can see that the black pen is to the right.

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So I went from there at the top of the swing to there down in delivery position

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And then as I continue to go through impact, I get a little bit pronated.

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And then as I go through to my finish, I get very much pronated.

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So that's looking at the lead risk now instead of switching this, we'll just

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pretend I'm

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going to swing lefty.

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So there's a kind of a wide range of where this pronation, supination, but a

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lot of guys

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are a little bit supinated because that lead elbow is going to be pointing in

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the direction

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of the target instead of in towards me.

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So there I'm slightly supinated, go up towards the top of the swing, I've

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clearly pronated,

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it's pointing off to the left.

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And as I come down, I'm much more pronated than I was at setup.

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And then that's going to allow for this fast speed of supination while I'm

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going to be

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more pronated.

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It's kind of the same as I can extend my legs very quickly when I go to jump,

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even though

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my legs haven't straightened yet.

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So when we come down into this position, if I'm in good delivery position, my

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body's

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in the right position.

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I've got good abduction of this trail arm or abduction of this trail arm, sorry

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That's going to allow me to supinate and not have the club face get too closed

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or have

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the path go too far left.

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So it allows me to have a good shallow angle of attack as well as to really

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extend those

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arms through the shot, which gives me a very wide arc width, which helps with

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my consistency.

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So hopefully this video helps you clarify when you're looking at supination,

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and then

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of course why we want to have supination as a whole different animal, so to

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speak.

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But this should at least help you clarify when you're looking at someone on

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video, give

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you a little bit better guess as to, well, are they pronated?

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Are they supinated?

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There's kind of an easy reference and easy way for you to look at it.