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Swing Plane Simplified - Working with steeps and shallows
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this golf smart insight we're going to
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discuss the shallowing as it relates to
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supination so I I see frequently that a
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lot of instructors are really big on the
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shallowing of the club during transition
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some of the mechanical research to back
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that up was modeled by Sasha and
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Mackenzie presented with a with Chris
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Como in a video a few years ago so
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everyone says hey you shallow the club
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it helps create this passive torque that
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helps square up the face and all that is
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mechanically correct the the problem is
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I then see some of the same instructors
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advocating a hold off release or
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advocating minimal supination so what
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I'm going to show you is that the whole
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purpose of this shallow move is to allow
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more supination or greater force with
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supination or allow you to supinate
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early so if you're teaching someone not
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to supinate i can actually make the
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argument that it doesn't make sense the
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shallow you should actually just kind of
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stay with everything in plane similar to
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what we would do in the finesse wedge
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swing where we have none of that shallow
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because we're going to square the face
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more with in-plane movement and we're
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not going to use as much of the
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supination during the release so the
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there was a video done a few weeks ago
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by Michael Finney at talking about the
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components of alpha and he was talking
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about the moment of force and that's
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really what we're talking about here and
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what this passive torque is when you
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Supan or when you shallow in transition
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and the the moment of force is going to
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allow us to supinate either harder or
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earlier depending on how you want to
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look at it so but I want to explain that
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moment of force they've they've used a
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couple analogies that I think are pretty
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good but just demonstrating with a golf
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club here right if I'm going to pull the
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handle and apply kind of a linear force
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that way this club will want to line up
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with that force and basically it will
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want to move across just like this
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so if the club if the center of mass is
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way down here then when I pull it it's
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going to want to move up towards that
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lining up basically with the direction
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that I'm pulling if I headed up here and
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I did the same movement yes gravity is
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going to help but if I was you know in a
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in a vacuum and didn't have gravity it
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would still want to move in that
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direction so what happens is when I have
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that shallow movement during transition
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now I can start supinating this forearm
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earlier without having an effect so
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basically as this is shallowing it can
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start supinating supinating pseudo
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mating and now it starts to move in the
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direction of supination if i kept it in
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a straight if i didn't allow that arm
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shallowing then what will happen is the
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second I start supinating the the the
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club is essentially going to move with
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it so I am a advocate of supination
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during the release I've never seen on 3d
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a good release that doesn't involve a
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fair amount of supination so it makes
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sense to me that this arm shallowing
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allows golfers to feel like they start
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that really sooner we teach or I teach
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the different methods of that I think
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are common among kind of the great
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golfers and how they release the club
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how they do the Shaolin movement and how
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they work in transition but in this
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video I just wanted to kind of help you
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with the thought puzzle basically if
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you're advocating this shallow movement
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during transition then what happens is
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when you when you go normal and when you
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start getting those things to line up
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it's allowing you to supinate earlier
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and harder which are good components of
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a release so if you're teaching more of
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a hold off release there's no real
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reason to then shallow during transition
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and if you're teaching shallowing during
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transition it should be to help support
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what you're trying to do during the
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release hopefully this helps if you like
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the way we break this down go over to
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videos that we do to help explain these
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current trends in golf sciences and how
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can apply them to your game or the game
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of your students
