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The Struill is exploring the Komoflatsbyte.

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So one of the models for repeatability that I really like comes from a good friend of mine

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named Chris Komof.

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As far as I know, he's the first person to really study this.

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So I call it the Komoflatsbyte.

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But basically it's looking at the path of this clubhead through impact.

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And his hypothesis is that which does have some data that supports it from Enzo.

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And then what we can see on 3D of what the handles doing kind of validate it as well.

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So it seems like it's a great idea as something that relates very highly to consistency.

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So basically what it's talking about is if I was to just have a fixed point that this club

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kind of swung around like so, like if I just froze this handle in space and just swung

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it around that, then the path of the club would follow almost the perfect circle.

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You know, ignoring shaft flex and things like that.

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But it would follow almost the perfect circle.

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So if I had that perfect circle trying to contact the ground, well you would see that it would

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only touch the ground for a split second.

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So this Komoflatsbyte idea is in order to have a bigger margin of error.

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Instead of having the club touch the ground for just a second, I want to take this circle

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where the club is swinging around me and I want to kind of flatten it out down the

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bottom kind of like so.

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So it doesn't change too much of the shape of the sides, but down at the bottom it's going

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to get as much of a straight line as we can somewhat in the direction of the target.

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Well that's a neat little high level thing and we'll talk about that in greater detail

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in the second half of this video.

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But the first part is the fun part which I call the lab, you get to go explore it.

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So you'll see that we have a number of drills in this in the release section and in the

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follow through section working on getting the club to kind of brush along the ground.

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So I use this concept of brushing the club on the ground to as a practical way of applying

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this 3D flat spot.

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So what you can do is you can try to experiment with different impact body positions, try

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to experiment with different timings and just try to get the club to brush along the

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ground.

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Now there's three ways that I want you to absolutely try this.

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You can add in your own but there's three ways and three things that I want you to explore.

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So one would be if I was too cast.

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So if I have my arms really straight like so, how am I going to get?

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Because you'll see the club barely brushes the ground unless I kind of have to have my upper

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body almost drag with it in order for me to figure out how to get it to brush the ground.

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Now you may be able to figure out a way with kind of early extension or something else

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in order to get it to do even better but that's one option.

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Option two is going to be with early extensions.

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So if I take my setup position and I get tall and now I'm going to, you'll see I get

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it to brush but you can see I'm only getting it to brush for a very small amount of space.

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So those are the two most common swing errors and you can see how they both make developing

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this 3D flats but a little bit trickier.

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So then the third one is I'm going to do a good merry-go-round so that I have a fair amount

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of rotation and side bent and my arms are kind of delayed and now what I'm going to do

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is I'm basically going to extend those arms and you'll see that because my arms, because

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my body is kind of in this rotation and side bent position, when my arms extend even though

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when my arms extend basically that's going to help that club kind of brush along the

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ground.

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So this is part of the reason why you'll see better players having 30 degrees of rotation,

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30 degrees of side bend somewhere out in that range so that when you extend your arms,

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the club just brushes against the ground.

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If I had zero rotations, zero side bend and I extend my arms, here the club just slam

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into the ground.

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So the body position that we teach, this powering it from your whole body, all of this

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stuff is to help you develop this 3D flats, the coma flats, which will help you ultimately

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be more consistent and have a more repeatable swing.

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If you're a novice golfer, I recommend you turn the video off now but if you're really

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into the details, you're an instructor or just what I consider the golf nerds, the guys

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who love this study, this stuff, then I'll help you understand this 3D flats but a little

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bit better.

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So I'm just going to bring this in.

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This is just going to represent the ground and hopefully it's pretty close to you know

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down camera line.

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So let's just say that that is roughly our target line and then here's the ground like

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so.

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In order for me to get and I'll do this facing you first, so in order for me to get

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this club to kind of slide along the ground, there's a couple different ways I could

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do it.

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One, if I keep the shaft the same and I just drag the grip across kind of like so,

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well that creates this club staying flat against the ground but you'll see that from

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practical standpoint, it wouldn't, it would be very, very difficult for me to keep this

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the same and drag it across like so.

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My body's just not set up to do that and it would be hard for me to create a lot of speed

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in doing that.

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So the second option would be I'm going to create an exaggerated amount of lean and then

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instead of just dragging it across, I'm going to raise it up kind of like so.

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So you'll see that the handle here compared to my finger is basically going to be raising

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up so this fixed length shaft is essentially going to be changing its pivot slightly as

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that club raises up which helps keep this club moving along the ground.

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So this rotation and side bend causes this phenomenon that when I extend my arms, because

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my upper body is slightly going back and rotating and this left shoulder is rotating

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away like so, you'll see that that causes the grip to actually come up and in and that

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coming up and in creates this flat spot of both high to low as well as into out because

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it's a 3D flat spot.

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But understand that one of the other important things and ways to develop this is to make

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sure that your arms are extending through the shot.

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The more that these arms kind of bend through the shot, the more that my flat spot is

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going to be right along where the golf ball is as opposed to starting at the golf ball

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and working a ways past it.

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We'll go all.

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I'll show you a couple 3D graphs of the way that we can get our closest measurement to it,

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which is arc width.

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I'll work with this measuring the distance between the center of the grip and the

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center of my torso or my thorax kind of right in here.

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And what we'll find is that if you look at the best players in the world, they tend to have

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the distance between this and this increasing almost until follow through position.

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Some of them actually do it all the way until follow through position where many amateurs

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will have it pretty much it's wide as point right before impact and then decreasing.

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And some very high handicapers will actually have it that it's wide as point well before

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impact.

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And then increasing.

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So it matters how you're pulling in.

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The best way to do it is have this combination of rotation and side bend so that you

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can delay when those arms are extending.

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The whole purpose of that is to develop this 3D flat spot which helps with your consistency.

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So if you're working on early extension, if you're working on casting and you just get lost,

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you can always come back to can I brush the ground for a long period of time starting

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at about where my ball position would be.

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If you can do that then what you're working on in your swing is going to help you be more

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consistent.

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If you can do that with a lot of speed that's everything you pretty much need to be good

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at golf other than controlling the club face which is that third piece.

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So hopefully this helps you see why we spend so much time working on the arm's shallowing

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during transition.

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And then those arms extending during the release because that combination of movements with

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a really good body pivot helps produce this flat spot which has been shown to be predictable

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for increased levels of consistency with your stock full swing.

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So what you see now is a sample arc width graph, a firm a tour pro.

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Basically the arc width graph is simply measuring the distance in inches between the thorax

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and the middle of the grip or the midhand's point.

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So what you'll see is during this timeline the arc width graph during the take away stays

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about the same and then the distance starts to decrease as they make the rest of their backswing.

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You'll see that continues to decrease through transition and then starts increasing fairly

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rapidly up until impact continues to increase until some point after impact usually somewhere

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around the follow through position because this is actually how I define the follow through

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position.

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And you'll see that that second peak is equal to or greater than where they were at address

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and there's a fairly rounded look to it.

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That's kind of the main two criteria that I'm looking for when I'm looking at one of these

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arc width graphs is going to be that timing of the peak at the top of the swing or transition

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and then the timing of the peak and the shape of the peak and the location of the peak after

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impact.

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Generally tour pro is going to have this peak be more gradual or rounded and later after

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impact which is kind of demonstrating that they're able to keep that club moving away from

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them through the impact interval which wouldn't happen without a good flat spot.

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So here we have a different professional and you can see that it's kind of got that similar

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pattern so if we look at the the peak near the top of the swing you can see that it happens

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after transition and then if we look at the peak after impact we can see that there's a steady

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increase until kind of a rounding peak after impact.

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So those two graphs look fairly similar but let's take a look at a couple amateur graphs

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and see what we'll typically see with the higher handicapper who struggle with this flat

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sub.

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So now here we have a high handicap golfer and what you'll see is the peak at the top of the

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swing is actually happening before the top of the swing so this is indicative of a cast

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pattern they're starting to kind of get that club working away from them before they transition.

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And then you'll see that there's a very sharp peak right at impact and that peak is significantly

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lower than where they were at address and then right after that peak it drops back off indicating

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that they're bending their arms and or chicken winging and kind of collapsing through the

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hitting area.

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Typically this is going to be part of a cast lunge pattern which is a lot less repeatable

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than the graph that we were demonstrating for the tour process.

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Let's take a look at another one.

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So here's kind of a medium handicap golfer you know somewhere in that 10 range but you'll

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see that has the similar characteristics of the higher handicap.

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His peak is right at the top of the swing instead of the downswing so it's not quite

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it's not as bad a cast but it's still slightly in that cast category and then you'll

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see their peak is right at it just after impact so it is widening through impact but

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just barely and then it kind of has a gradual decline instead of a sharp one like that

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higher handicap golfer that we were just demonstrating.

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But you will see that compared to where they are it's set up the impact peak is lower

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than the setup peak so they're not getting quite as much arm extension and width which

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will limit their flat spot and consistency.

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Now let's take a quick look at a before and after with a skilled golfer that I work with.

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So here you can see on the right is the before and basically you can see that the peak

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at the top of the swing was happening just before the top of the swing and then the peak

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at impact was fairly sharp right at impact and then there was kind of a little plateau

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afterward.

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You can see that after working on some transition and release for a season his next 3D revealed

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a delayed peak so now the peak is happening just into the downswing and then the peak

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is now happening after impact and much more gradual.

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This is helps him with his consistency as far as contact and ball striking and now we're

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shifting more into shwerking.

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But hopefully that understands you understand the coma flats spot how we measure it what

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it is and why it helps with repeatability and why it's something that you should strive

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for with your game.