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This video is addressing why you might want to start with the motorcycle.

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So many golfers come into working on their golf swing from, let's say, a home-

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grown swing

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and they've got a few issues that they got to work on.

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Oftentimes I hear, you know, "I get really steep.

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Clubs kind of like this.

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I need to work on challenging it.

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Oftentimes I hear I early extend, you know, hips kind of move in towards the

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golf ball.

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I got to work on staying down."

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Or, "Get to impact and my right arm's too straight and my butt hasn't rotated."

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So I got to work on rotating my body or one of the more common ones.

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I know I've got a flip shaft as vertical just like this.

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I need to get a little bit more shaftly.

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But I rarely, rarely hear someone come in and say, "You know what?

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I need to work on twisting the club and closing the face a little bit earlier."

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And here's why I might suggest that that's one of the early things that you

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work on.

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If you are reading the feedback and you're starting with, you know, "What's my

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ball flight?

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What's my contact light?"

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Like, very often you are going to find that you want one of those other things.

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You may want to shallow the club.

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You may want to get more body rotation.

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You may want to get more shafting.

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Those are all really good things for helping produce a swing that has more flat

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spot, a

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little bit more consistency, more body power, all good things.

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But they also have one thing in common.

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They all open up the club face.

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So many of the good movements that you are going to want to work on are going

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to create

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leg and are going to create shaft lean and are going to cause a club face to go

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from

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here to there and point more out to the right.

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So many times I'll humor the student and we'll work on whatever it is that they

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want

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to work on and we'll see that they'll hit the ball thin or possibly even on the

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heel,

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maybe even shank, or they'll hit it just off to the right.

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And then what they'll usually end up doing is they'll end up scooping, standing

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up, stalling

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the rotation, getting steeper, always to re-close the club face.

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So I've often helped golfers work on rotating the club or working on that

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motorcycle early

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in the swing and early in the learning process.

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It's usually one of the first things that I'll work on because it almost always

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produces

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a more crisp or solid contact because it helps create some shaft lean, helps

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bring up

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compression or ring down spin loss.

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But the other thing it does is it gives them the skill of knowing how to rotate

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the club

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face closed so that when we shallow, if they hit it right, I can say, hey, just

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twist it

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a little more and they know what I'm talking about.

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Or if they get better body rotation and they hit it a little right or they hit

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it a little

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thin, I can say, go ahead and close the club face.

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So having the skill that you're going to need before you need it is a great way

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to approach

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the learning process and many of the good body things and good arm things

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during the

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downswing open the club face.

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You really have two major options for squaring it or closing it.

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One is twisting the shaft, that motorcycle movement, and the other is the scoop

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The scoop works well with short irons and wedges, but it doesn't really work

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too well

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with the longer club.

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So if you're looking at it from a long-term approach, it may make sense for you

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to work

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on the skill of closing the club face first by using the motorcycle.

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If you do so, then any shot that flies pretty straight or has a little bit of a

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draw to

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it should be taken as a success.

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And then you can figure out which of the pieces you may need in order to get it

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to

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go less left.

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Perhaps it's more Jackson 5X still, perhaps it's more arm-shallowing, perhaps

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it's more

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white movement, but you'll at least have the tool in place to be able to use

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those good

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downswing movements that open the face if you already know how to rotate it

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closed.