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This concept video is connecting the dots between face rotation and body rotation and impact.

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So, done another video working on helping you understand how the shaft has to flatten if you

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want to have body rotation.

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This is going to talk about what happens if the club faces open or closed.

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Now frequently, we'll use these magnets on the golf club.

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If you want to do this at home, just take a golf tee and some tape or stick them and

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you can put it on the club face and it'll point where it's pointing.

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The other way that you can do it, that's not quite as accurate, but is a more powerful

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visual, is this way right here.

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So I've got just a piece of cardboard that's taped to the club perpendicular to where the

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face is pointing or pretty close to it.

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Putting the magnet on the face is definitely more accurate than this little airfoil

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that I've created, but the airfoil does a really good job, especially from down the line

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like so, of seeing roughly where this face is pointing.

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It doesn't take into account this upward and downward motion and how that affects the

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club face, but it gives a good general representation of either if I have rotated it forward

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or backward or if I have rotated the club or the club head forward backward.

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So I'm going to show you what body rotation does to the shaft and why we're going to have

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to have the club face more close that impact than it was at setup.

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So the more that I get body rotation, if my hand stay roughly out in front of my body,

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then what you'll see is that's going to point the club face much more to the right or in

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an open position.

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So what'll happen is if you're in transition and you tend to open the club face, now

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if I was to continue rotating, you can see that that club face is actually pointed over

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there.

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So about 80 degrees away from the target.

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So what'll happen is my body is smart, I'll get to this position where that club face

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is open and I'll stand up instead of rotating so that my hands can pass and now that

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is pointed in the direction of the target.

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But what Torpros are doing is they're getting a certain amount of shaft lean, whether

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it's 10 degrees, 15 degrees, they're getting the handle slightly ahead of the club, which

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just by doing that if I keep the club's center of gravity in the same place, what happens

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is it opens the club face.

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So then my only other options would be to lower it like so, but I can only do that so much

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and I'm not ever going to get it pointed at the direction of the target.

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So the best option I've got is this rotation or the motorcycle move that I talk about.

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Now that can come from either the left or the right hand, whether it's the motorcycle

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or the throwers catch, they're the same thing.

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They're basically rotating the club face, so now it's pointed in the direction of the target.

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Now the change in that, if I'm facing you, is if I rotate it like so and then I turn,

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kind of looks like that.

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So instead of this little airfoil being perfectly level-in-pointed at the target, it's

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actually pointed down and pointed at the target.

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But again, the only way that I'm going to get that is if I've rotated my club closed and

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the more that I rotate my body and get my body in this open side bent position like so,

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at impact, the more that I'm going to have to close the club face.

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Now you have three options as far as closing the club face.

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You can adjust your grip, it's set up.

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You can change the arm movements or you can change the body movements.

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But the big ones are going to be this grip it's at up and body movement.

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So the motor cycle, or sorry, the grip it's at up and the arm movements.

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So the motor cycle movement is kind of trying to get this airfoil pointed down towards

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the ground as soon as possible so that when I just rotate my body, now that's pointed

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just slightly right of my target, but with a path that's going slightly in and out so I

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can hit that nice draw.

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So again, if you're struggling with getting that motorcycle movement in the club face

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is pointing up, it would end up looking something like this and there's no way I'm going

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to get good rotation side bend and get that good flat spot down at the bottom.

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So if you're struggling with that while you're working on this arm shallow piece, you

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can also work on that club face closing.

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Both of those are going to allow that body rotation.

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One interesting point is if we look at the vines wedge, we're going to see that we're

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going to square the club face in a different way than we're going to do it with the full swing.

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So here we've got 52 degree wedge with that same, or sorry, I think there's a 52 degree wedge

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with that same piece of cardboard or similar piece of cardboard kind of pointing in the

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direction of the club face.

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So for these shots, we're going to come into the golf ball with the shaft a lot more

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vertical.

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James Seekman, who I think is one of the best of this, says it's about a three to seven

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degree amount of shaft lean.

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Not sure where he's getting his numbers, but we know that if you look at video, they're

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not going to have nearly as much lag and shaft lean compared to the full swing.

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So what we're doing with the finesse wedge is we're basically releasing it and getting

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it pointed square like so, we're in the full swing, we're getting it square like that.

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I'll demonstrate from down the line.

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So in the finesse wedge, I'm basically releasing so that this is now pretty much straight

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up and down in pointed it.

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Sorry, get that allows me to use the bounce as opposed to what a lot of people who struggle

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with this finesse wedge will do is they'll get too much lean and now the only way that

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they could close it is by slamming down the face, but that takes away bounce in your margin

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of air.

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Now I call this video rotation the club base, but this could very easily be shaft lean

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to club base.

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So the more that I get body rotation, the more that the handle gets out in front and

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the club base points off to the right.

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So in order to hit it relatively straight, I'm going to have to close that club base

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that gives me that delofted look of the club, but I faced it pointed in the general direction

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of the target.

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So if you're struggling with getting body rotation or shaft lean, you're going to have

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to look at the timing and how much you're closing the club base, whether with your setup

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grip or mostly with these arm movements.