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In this video, we're going to take a look at the whoosh progressions and we're

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going

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to watch a couple students troubleshoot what it's like to use the whoosh

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progression to

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figure out what a good path looks like and then struggle with how do I organize

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the club

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face to a good path.

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Because if you're struggling with either the outside in or overly inside out,

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there's

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a good chance that your face-to-path relationship is off during transition or

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down near the

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bottom during the release and what you'll see with this whoosh progression is

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it can be

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a great diagnostic to see if it's really a face problem or a path problem.

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Let's take a look at a couple golfers going through the whoosh progressions to

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see how

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the whoosh drill can also be a little bit of a path to face diagnostic.

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So here we have a golfer on the left going through the whoosh progressions and

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basically

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what you'll see is first, he's just trying to get the club to whoosh from

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impact as I

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demonstrate in the drill.

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And you'll see that there's a fairly fluid amount of lead arm rotation and

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trail arm

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extension.

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For all intentant purposes, this looks like a very good path and release

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associated with

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that path.

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Now over here on the left, he's going to take the club back to delivery

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position and then

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try to go through that same pattern and what you'll see is there's a very good

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amount

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of body turn, there's a almost excessive amount of shaft lane, there's a very

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good amount

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of shaft lane and then you'll see a similar looking fluid release in terms of

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trail arm

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extension and lead arm rotation.

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Okay so we'll move that one over onto the left and on the right we'll now have

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him trying

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to do the exact same thing but with a club.

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So he gripped it in his normal way and he's just walking through this whoosh

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progression

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trying to get the club to whoosh and what you'll find is that when the golf

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club would

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have made contact with the golf ball it would be pointing roughly 30 degrees

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out to the

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right.

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This is a very common pattern among amateur golfers which is basically if they

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had a very

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good path which the whoosh drill almost requires you to have a good path in

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order to get it

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to whoosh, if he had a good path he does not know how to organize the face for

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that path

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and so what you would see is when he goes back to trying to hit a real golf

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ball you'll

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see that he would dump the angles and kind of use the early release and the

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casting movement

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in order to get that club face more closed.

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The problem is it does so by affecting his release.

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So this is a clear example of where face control and face education have to be

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a big part of

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how this person is going to reprogram their path.

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So now let's take a look at another golfer going through the same progression

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and you'll

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see another example of where face and path and balancing the two is a big part

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of the

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solution for fixing most amateur swing issues.

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So here he is doing the whoosh progression and you'll see again even almost

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excessive

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shaft lean in order to get the whoosh after the golf ball but a very fluid

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amount of lead

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arm rotation and trail arm extension.

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So now if we take him up to the top of the swing you'll see him making good

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looking transition

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building up that speed and then in order to get that whoosh you can see again a

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very fluid

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amount of trail arm extension and lead arm rotation and you'll see that while

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his trail

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arm is extending it doesn't reach you know the body has used a very good path

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in order

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to delay that extension of the arms.

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So again good looking release.

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Now let's see what happens when he switches the club right side up.

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So over on the right now he has the club head and just for comparison sake I'll

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take the

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just the shaft and put it to roughly where the golf ball would have been so

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somewhere

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just passed there or just before there.

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So now with a club face whether it's the weight of the club or the orientation

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of the

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face you can see that there are already some changes going on in order to get

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that club

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face pointed in a similar direction of the target.

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So unlike the first golfer the first golfer actually did roughly the same thing

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when he

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turned the club upside down but as a result the club was pointed well open.

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The second golfer if we take him back up to the top of the swing if you look at

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the trail

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arm if you look at kind of the amount of angle of the shaft you can see that he

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the second

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golfer has released the club much sooner and he's created a little bit more

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space with

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that trail arm working kind of out and away he's done so in order to get the

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face pointed

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at the target.

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So while he still has a little bit more shaft lean than he normally does this

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is falling

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into his usual pattern of using that trail arm early and then as he comes

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through the

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ball it no longer has that kind of fluid look of trail arm extension it now has

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a little

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bit more of the shoulder internal rotation and kind of forearm rotation to take

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the club

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through the ball but those two movements do not build a very consistent and

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repeatable

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arc width which is what he's demonstrating here in that whoosh progression.

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So the whoosh drill can be a great diagnostic to see if you have more of a path

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problem

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or more of a face problem or basically if we give you a good path then what

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happens with

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the face?

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Very often golfers who have face issues will feel a benefit in experiencing

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what a good

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path is like from either doing something like the whoosh drill or using a

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trainer such as

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the orange whip or momentus any of those heavy or long clubs almost guarantee

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that you will

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have a good path and then if your brain can figure out how to make a good face

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relationship

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to that path you can overall succeed or succeed in changing your face and path

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pattern.

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So if you're an early extender or a caster or an early release type player

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figuring out

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whether it's more of a face or a path problem can help you figure out the

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fastest way for

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you to improve it.