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This content video is answering the member question.

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Is clearing the left side the same as clearing the left hip?

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Um, so my, my answer would be yes and no.

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Um, I think there are two different ways of feeling, um,

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the same movement, but I think there's a,

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a good distinction built into this question.

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Um, so I thought we'd talk about it.

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Um, in general, I would say clearing the left side

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is a better thought than just clearing the left hip.

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Um, when we get down into the release

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and especially down towards impact, we want

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to get into this twisted spine position where the,

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the shoulders are pretty close to parallel

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or they're rightward rotated compared to the body

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and the, the body is pointing out in front of the golf ball.

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So I think the distinction for a lot

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of people is when they feel the left side,

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they're feeling more the bottom of the rib cage, kind

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of from chest down, this part of the body getting out

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of the way, and that helps get more

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of the spine, uh, rotation.

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Oftentimes when I see golfers just try

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to clear the left hip, um,

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either they'll do it just like this

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and I'm really only rotating kind of my, uh, lower spine.

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My, you'll see my rib cage

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and my upper body is still, uh, quite square.

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Um, uh, or they'll, they'll even just snap the knee

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and not do anything with the spine.

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Where when, when I cue people

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and I kind of touch the bottom of the rib cage

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and I try to get this to move out

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of the way without the shoulders going with it, then

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that feels like this left side

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of the body is getting more out of the way.

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And that's where I think the idea of clearing the left side,

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getting open, creating space, um,

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all helps create this better, uh, impact alignment.

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Um, so if I pick a language, uh, usually

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what I do is I help golfers get into the position.

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I ask them, does this feel more, um,

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like you're rotating your spine?

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Uh, the ribs, the hip.

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I'll ask them, what does that feel like?

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Um, and oftentimes they'll say more, it's kind

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of this lower rib cage, the, the bottom ribs here, uh,

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getting open, getting outta the way

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and creating all this space

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between the left arm and the ribcage.

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And that's where I think the original thought

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of clearing the whole left side might have come from

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and why I prefer it to just clearing the hip.

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So if you're working on impact

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and you feel kind of jammed up,

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and especially like this left arm

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and left side are very close together, then the idea, um,

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we have a bunch of different drills, um,

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where we focus on getting the, the left side

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of the body away from the left arm.

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Um, ultimately that will help create some of those better

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impact line.