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- One Piece takeaway - controlled by T-Spine rotation (rt side)
- Wrists don’t change much
- Slight shift back, but weight does not go to the outside of trail foot
- Rt shoulder blade move
The takeaway is a simple movement that is easy to perform incorrectly.
A good one piece takeaway is a turning and side bending of the thoracic spine there should be about as much side bend as rotation at the takeaway. There “might be” a shift of weight, but the weight should not move to the outside of the foot.
Playlists: Beginner Program, STS - Swing Phases
Tags: Backswing, Concept, Beginner
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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the takeaway.
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So we're breaking the backswing down into two phases.
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The initiation or the first phase of the backswing,
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we're going to call the takeaway.
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And then the second phase, we're going to call setting the club.
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Now the takeaway is really a very simple movement.
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It's roughly turning my spine.
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So if I take my normal grip and I have the club,
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I'll take my normal setup and we'll demonstrate here first.
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So if I took my normal setup, a good takeaway is basically going to be
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a turn of the spine until the club is about parallel to the ground,
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something like that.
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So if I were standing up straight into all and I just turned,
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that would roughly be what a good takeaway is.
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Now that seems very, very simple and it is.
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The problem is an execution.
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There are a number of things that can go wrong
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and there are a number of things that can complicate things.
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First of all, while it looks like I'm just turning,
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it's actually a little bit more complicated than that.
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So in order, if I was standing straight up and down,
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yes, I would just rotate my spine.
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The club would say out in front of me just like so.
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And everything would be hunky dory.
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Because I've bent from the hips,
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if I kept my hips flexed exactly the same,
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and I was to just turn my spine.
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Now you would see that my upper body would get my head way outside my foot.
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There's a huge myth in the golf swing about this big load in the back swing
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and this big weight shift into the back swing.
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There is a little bit of a weight shift, possibly.
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We're not really sure.
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Well, we think there's a little bit of a weight shift.
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What we know is that the pressure is going to shift
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or where I'm kind of pushing into the ground
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is going to shift as I make this back swing.
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So what one person may interpret as weight
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is probably actually pressure.
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Because what 3D shows is that the pelvis and the upper body
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will have on the upper end about a 1 inch shift in the back swing,
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which is very, very little.
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So there's very little shift away from the target of the upper body
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and the pelvis in the back swing.
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Most guys tend to say a little bit more centered.
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Some even drift a little bit towards the target,
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but they're all going to press into that foot
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and create a pressure shift.
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So let's get into the movements of this simple little 1 piece
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take away.
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First, the arms aren't going to do very much at all.
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They basically stay out in front
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and there's little change.
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There can be little change in the wrist,
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but there's marginal movement during this initiation phase.
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It should be led from the ribcage.
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In order for me to turn in what looks like perpendicular
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or turning in my posture in my spine angle,
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what actually has to happen is a blend of 3 movements.
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One of them is going to be standing up from the hips.
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One of them is going to be bending to the left,
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and the other one is actually going to be turning.
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Now, if I do this in a 1-1 to 1 ratio,
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what ends up happening is I stand up, I side bend, I turn.
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I stand up, I side bend, I turn,
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and now I've actually made my rotation movement
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without having the upper body translation.
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So it's a little tricky,
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but there's simple ways to practice it,
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which we go over in the drill videos.
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But more or less, we are trying to make a ribcage movement
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in order to move the club and the hands
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to this parallel position, and we're going to call that take away.
