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In this video, we're going to take a look at a common complaint, which is, why doesn't

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my practice swing feel anything like my full swing?

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Or rather, why am I able to do this in my practice swing when I can't do it in the full

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swing?

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So we're going to take a look at one of our members who is going through a series of

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progressions of trying to take a practice swing and make a move, trying to then make contact

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with the ground and then trying to hit the ball.

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Hopefully you'll learn something about your own game from watching this call for struggle

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with making those transitions.

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So part of the reason why I stress, figure out the movement, try and find the ground and

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then let the ball get in the way.

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I hope we'll be explained by watching one of our members go through that progression.

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So it sent me an email basically saying, why can't I do what I do in my practice swing?

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And I explain him that what he did in his practice swing wouldn't work.

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So here he is making a practice swing and he sent this to me and he said, how come I can't

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get this amount of kind of side bend and rotation?

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And I said, well, if you were to look at the club face right there, you can see that

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it is pointed way off to the right and it's about three inches or so, you know, it's above

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the ground.

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So basically the only way this would work is if he was trying to hit it over there and

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the golf ball was well above the ground.

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Otherwise the brain hasn't done what I've called solve the equation.

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It hasn't figured out how to get the path of the club to hit the golf ball with a face

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and having the side bend.

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So the next thing I did was I respond to I said, okay, now take a practice swing and I

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want you to try and make contact with the ground.

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So this is his next attempt, which is trying to take a practice swing and make contact

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with the ground.

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So now if we get it to about the same point, you can see that the club face is a little

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bit open as well, but you can see that the major change has come from his arm.

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Basically the only way that his brain knew how to find the ground was to abort what he was

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doing with his body and extend that right arm.

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So then the last piece I said, okay, why don't you go ahead and hit a golf ball, so I'll

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bring that over here on the right.

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And now this is him making his swing at the golf ball.

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And so what we can do is we can compare the practice swing and look at the real details

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of the timing and the movements and what's going on.

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But we can kind of get this general picture that here he's making contact and the club

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face is pointing in the direction of the target.

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So he's not doing what he did in the practice swing because if he did, he'd miss the

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net.

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The issue is that with this practice swing, he's figured out how to make a really good

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efficient path.

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But the problem is his brain hasn't figured out how to get a club face that works for

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that path or a club face orientation that works for that path.

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So when he goes back to hitting a golf ball, his brain figured out to stop rotating and

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release the club, which gets the club pointing at the target, but not using that motorcycle

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or that rotation of the club.

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So he squared it by kind of casting or slightly scooping, not by motorcycle.

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So this tells me that this is a clear club face issue because he can make a good path.

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He does so sort of with this practice swing.

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But when he makes a good path, the club face is an unusable position.

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So if you're having hard time taking the movements from practice swings to full swings,

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I recommend video taping yourself and really looking at what is different and you'll

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start to see how your brain is controlling where that club is and how your brain is controlling

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how you're creating the speed.

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In this particular golfer's case, you can see that yes, what he does with his practice

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swing does look better from the body standpoint.

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The hand pass better, the club path is all better, but the problem is the bottom of the

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swing is not in the right place, so it wouldn't strike the ball solidly and the club face

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is not in a good position, so it wouldn't hit the ball even close to straight.

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So until you figure out how to take a practice swing, getting the bottom of the swing to

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brush the ground, even with the golf ball or slightly ahead of it and get the club face

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to be square through that phase, you're going to have a hard time taking it from your

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practice swing to your real swing.