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This concept video is connecting the dots from the top of the swing to transition.

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So all these transitions from one movement to the other or the connecting the dots series

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is really to help you understand how these pieces fit together.

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So with focusing on what we're trying to do during transition, remember we're trying

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to have this trail leg push into this right leg push as well.

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So I'm going to have this lower body shift.

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So I'm going to kind of regain my flex kind of compress against the ground and the

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big one is I'm going to shallow my arms and start squaring that club face.

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So what I want to look at is what are the back swing things that can make that more difficult.

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Well the easy ones for the lower body are essentially if I don't turn, right, then

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I'm going to have very little to essentially, I've got very little load in my glutes,

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very little load on my inner thigh.

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I'm not going to have a whole lot to push off up.

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The other simple one is if I was to slide or sway and get to the outside of my foot.

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So if I was to shift my weight towards the outside of my foot, now it's going to be very

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hard for me to push off the inside of the foot.

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So what we work on in the back swing is hopefully tightening up that lower body coil so that

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I can then use that in transition.

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Now the one that I think is a little bit trickier is this kind of arm shallowing piece,

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right?

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So essentially if I was to shallow it a ton during this back swing and go more this way,

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well I've actually kind of loaded and prepared my body to go into more of a steep movement.

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And we want that to happen kind of down near down in the release but below waist height,

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not up at the top of the swing.

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So often what we're trying to do is if the arms stay more in front of your body and actually

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work a little bit more vertically, that will tend to give this space for the arms to flatten

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in shallow.

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If I work completely across my body like so, then any amount of body movement on the

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way down is typically going to get that right elbow stuck behind me and this path to steep

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it.

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So if possible you could be like a gym-fueric and still get it behind you and still shallow,

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but there's very few who actually are able to do that.

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So typically what's going to happen is the more that those arms are in a good position

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being in front of you and even a little bit more vertical towards the top of the swing.

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And then I control getting most of my depth with this body turn, that's going to allow

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the arms to shallow more during transition, which ultimately is going to help with that

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flat spot during release.

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So if you're struggling with making this transition move of getting either your arms to shallow

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or your body to initiate the downswing, then please take a look at what you're doing to end

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the backswing because that may be setting you up for kind of more difficulties during this

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transition than you really have to go through.