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This concept video is connecting

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grip strength to club rotation.

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Um, so part of the motorcycle move

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or is getting the club to rotate the entire downswing.

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Um, so getting the club to have more of a movement kind

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of like this rather than what a lot of golfers who struggle

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with consistency, they don't rate the rotate the club

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and then they rotate it very fast at impact.

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Now that movement, that rotation, some

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of it could happen naturally

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and some of it could be more muscular or aggressive.

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It really depends on what you're doing with your grit.

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Um, so let's take a step back and talk about the grip.

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Um, when we talk about the grip,

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we usually refer to grip strength.

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The more that the hands are on top

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or the thumbs are pointing like straight up

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and down towards you, we call this a weak grip.

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Um, the more that the hands are turned to the side

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or underneath more like this, we call it a strong grip.

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What will happen is when we're swinging the club,

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the club is going to pick up some momentum

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and it's going to be pulling on our arms.

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And our arms are going to tend to want to approach more

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of a neutral alignment.

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So if I start with my hands way underneath like this, then

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as they approach neutral, the club will rotate.

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Um, if I have a really strong grip like this, then

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what would happen is if I was to let it really rotate, then

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the ball would go way to the left.

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It would be a big old pull hook.

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Um, so if I have a stronger grip like that,

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then I'm either going to have to hold the face off

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or I'm going to have to turn my body so that it delays

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the straightening of the, the arms until

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after I've hit the golf ball.

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Some people love that feel of more of a body hitting

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and it feels more like I can kinda hold off the hands

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rather than feeling like, uh,

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the arms have a little bit more release.

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I would say that that tends

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to feel like it's got more passive rotation

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or, um, rotation where I don't have

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to feel like I'm doing so much.

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If you look at your swing

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and you're, if you're hitting slices or pushes

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and the ball keeps going off to the right

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and you look at the swing and the club is in a good position

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here, but then it's just being left open there.

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Um, so it's being left open from shaft parallel

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until impact, I would double check your, uh, grip

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because if the grip is a little bit too much on top,

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then you might just have to feel like you manually close it,

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like you actively close it with the, uh, forearm muscles.

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So if I, if I have my grip in a little bit more weaker

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position, I can get a similar ball flight,

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but I'm gonna really have

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to feel like I twist the club down.

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So I'm gonna really feel like I had

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to manually rotate the club.

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Now some people love that feel, um,

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because it feels like I'm using my hands into the golf ball.

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So golf is a lot about figuring out your matchups.

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The stock tour swing is kind of pointing out the, the,

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the commonalities and kind of the baseline of what's,

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what's the stronger side, what's the weaker side.

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Um, but as long as you find a matchup then matches

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with your tendencies and your personality style.

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You can have great consistency,

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whether it's a weak grip or a strong grip.

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You just have to understand how to read the club face

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and what it's like at shaft parallel

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and compare that to ball flight.

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That'll help you figure out

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how much twist you need to get down to the bottom.

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If you need more

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or less tip, uh, twist down to the bottom, you can look at

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what your arms and hands are doing,

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but you can also look at the grip.

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Looking at the grip is often neglected

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by a lot of the online students.

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Um, so don't neglect that if you're trying

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to dial in your release and dial in your ball flight.

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So real quick, a stronger grip to have kind

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of a more neutral ball flight.

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It's going to have more body rotation, so it's gonna feel

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like the, the arms will feel like they're kind

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of dragging a little bit and like the club is way behind.

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I hit that thin, so I just want to do another one

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and I'm gonna make it even stronger.

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I see some, some golfers

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who have really strong grips kind like this.

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It's okay, we can still hit a nice little baby draw with

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that grip or a fade.

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Um, and then the other one would be if we

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have a weaker grip.

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So if we have the hands way on top.

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Now eventually we, if you get this hand so far on top,

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it's like a bunker shot where we have a hard time overlo it.

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Um, so I'm gonna get this basically as weak

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as I feel like I can still comfortably

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really twist into impact,

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but now I might feel a little bit less body movement

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And a little bit more arms and hands.

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I was close, um, left it out a little bit,

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so I've gotta twist it a little bit earlier.

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I could feel like I keep my back to the target in order

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to allow me to close it sooner.

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Um, or I could just feel like I twist it.

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I'm gonna try that, uh, a little bit more back to the target

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to allow me to have the time to close it.

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So really weak grip,

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a little thin, having a hard time with that.

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Um, so I would

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probably err on a little bit more neutral grip

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or just noticing how well that strong grip felt.

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I would gravitate towards that one rather than trying

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to fight, getting a little bit more supination

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or motorcycle with the weak grip.

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But the choice is yours on how to match it up

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to dial in your ball flight.