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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at pros demonstrating the Komoflatsbot.

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So in the Komoflatsbot, I talk about how I like to use 3D to show the arc with increasing

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through impact into the follow-through position.

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And it's doable to kind of get a clue as to what's going on by looking at video.

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So I'm going to give you a few references that you can use.

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So we're going to really be exploring kind of the wipe and the bracing and getting into

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a really good impact position and typically how pros do it.

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So first we're going to look over here on the right and we've got Nick Watney.

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Now I've got a line drawn there.

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This was actually a appears that it was filmed on a tripod so everything looks like

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it's a pretty stable as far as the video doesn't change much.

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So what I like to do is I'll take the golfer down to about shaft parallel to the ground

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in the down swing and I'll just draw a line roughly at the top of their wrists.

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Now a couple things I want to look at is where is this in reference to their body.

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So you'll see with most pros this is going to be well below the belt if I was to take.

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It depends definitely on camera angle but since most camera angles are shot from a little

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bit above you'll tend to see it kind of in the mid-dye range or at least by the crutch.

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And then what you'll see is if we jump back to Nick Watney.

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As he goes through I want you to or as he goes through the release I want you to watch his

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hands and the hand height compared to that line.

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And you'll see that it basically works across the screen and then slowly starts working

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up just before impact and then after impact.

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And as a result of that kind of slow gentle ascent like so you will tend to see a very good

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amount of arm extension on the way through.

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We can jump over a grammy dial and look at the same thing.

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He's going to have a little bit more hands working up but you'll see for the most part

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they are working out towards the golf ball as they are going up as they are working into

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that good extension piece.

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Now in order to have that you're going to have to have this access tilt you're going

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to have the upper body side bent as well as rotated and the upper body behind the pelvis

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as your arms are extending.

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Now you will also have to have a little bit of that the motorcycle movement that we

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teach in transition in order to have the club face already getting into that square

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position so that when you delay your arm extension piece until this late the golf club

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is still pointed at the direction of target.

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So here we'll take a look at two more golfers.

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We got same sneak on the right and Jordan's teeth on the left.

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So I like to that line is drawn when the hands are parallel to the ground.

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I like to see when the club is at about chef 45 or pointed roughly at the golf ball again

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where that height is and you'll see you'll tend to see that most of these pros are going

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to be down around belt height or slightly below.

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Now if we think about if we want it coming flat if we want the hand path coming more

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less flat across as you're going into impact then the easiest way that that's going to

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happen is the hands are going to have to be slightly below where they're going to be

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an impact.

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That means during transition they're going to have to get down closer to the ground and

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that's going to come from having that good retention of forward or getting back into

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forward reflection and doing a little bit of that left tilt that we teach in transition.

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But we can take a look at a couple more here.

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So you got same sneak.

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Obviously this is a much slower frame rate but you can see the hands working kind of across

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and then the blur of the hands working really out.

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I actually tend to see compared to amateurs the pros who use their body tend to have

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not necessarily faster hands coming up and in.

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In fact they actually tend to be coming up a little bit less than amateurs but they tend

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to be moving in the direction of the target at a greater speed than amateurs going

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through that same phase and that's part of the reason why they're going to get that

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arm extension piece.

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So if we jump over here to Jordan's faith this is a little bit more modern camera so

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it'll be a little bit more clear and you can see the hands are still going down a little

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bit but now they're starting to work back up as he's approaching impact even though

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the handle is going down and that combination with the bracing is going to allow for that

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really good arm extension and those hands working more towards the target through here

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instead of kind of bending narrowing or chicken winging.

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So now we can take a look at a few amateurs just to see what the opposite or the alternative

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is going to look like.

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So I'll bring up a handful of examples and we can see what we can learn.

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As this golfer is coming down he has a little bit of a cast sequence and so you'll see that

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when I get that line drawn at the top of his hands you can see that it's above the

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crotch closer to the belt line so he's a little bit higher up and so what you'll see

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is he balanced that with standing up with his upper body instead of really kind of crunching

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down to use the ground and as a result those hands are going to be working much more

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down.

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Now again the exact height is going to depend on some of the camera angles and that's

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why I prefer to use the arc with graph in 3D but this is a good rough way of looking

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at this flat spot and now you'll see that he still gets a little flat spot kind of down

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through there where his hands are working slightly up and then they'll tend to work up

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actually faster than the pros so his hands will be working more up and less out towards

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the target so they'll the distance between himself and the grip will more or less stay

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the same in this particular case.

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This is actually a mid-single digit golfer so he's figured out how to make that cast pattern

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work but he struggles with getting his body involved struggles a little bit with the driver

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and both of those are both of those show up in golfer's who tend to have the handle

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working a little bit more down kind of in this v pattern down and up instead of having

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that really good gentle flat spot.

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Now over here on the right we're going to see another amateur kind of working on this

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pattern and you'll see that's got a pretty good transition and we're starting to lose

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the club in a little bit of a cast and so now if we get down to roughly where that handle

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would have been because we missed that frame because of this frame rate.

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You can see that his hands are back behind his body.

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This is a thing that I didn't necessarily highlight in that first batch of pros but one of the

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other reference points that I like to look at is when the hands get to parallel how what

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is their relationship to the right shoulder or to the body so you'll see that his hands are

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behind his body like so over here on the right.

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What that means is if he was to add any amount of side bend and if he was to get his shoulders

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more open and rotated because the hands are behind the body and the club is already gone

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that would tend to cause really fat shots so this golfer will avoid that.

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What he'll do instead is the hands will continue working down right up until contact and

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then they'll start working up relatively quickly.

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Now actually it does a pretty good job of getting that arm extension on the way through

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but you can see that it almost has to change directions a little bit.

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It starts working more up and in before it starts working out.

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That's going to cause toe contact fat shots weak shots off to the right.

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If he gets a little bit of early extension it could potentially cause heel shots but all of that

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is because the club is too much behind his body here and too high compared to the ground to

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have a really good consistent flat spot.

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Now we have an amateur golfer working his way through an early extension early release pattern.

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So over on the left is from when he first came to see me and we can see the handle line

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closer to where his belt line would be and because his upper body is stood up or worked away from

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my golf ball. We'll tend to see that right arm and left hand working down a little bit more

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as they lengthen and then working relatively up quickly. It's not, it's not awful. This again

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is a very good high single digit handicap golfer. So gets around the course very very well

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but you can see those hands working a little bit more up and in and less kind of out in the cross.

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So then over here on the right is a video taken from earlier this year where he's working on

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having that white movement and having the upper body stayed out and you'll see that if we take a

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look at where that line is it's much lower to the ground than it was over here with the driver

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and then as a result we'll see as he comes through that the hands work much more across and are

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starting to work up a little bit sooner but on a more gentle fashion as they work a little bit out

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towards the target. Okay so over on the left we have Roy McRoy on the right we have one of the

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classic swings of Ben Hogan. You can see that the line that I drew with the top of the of the

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wrists kind of again top of the thighs near the Karate area. A lot of amateurs you'll tend to see

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it up closer to the belt line and that's partly because they're standing up and they're

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releasing and powering it more with their arms that upper body staying flexed forward allows them to

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these golfers to use the ground to help rotate their bodies and delay the extension of the arms.

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So here he is and it's roughly the top of his wrists and you'll see those hands work more

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less across and just kind of slightly working up or gently working up pretty much from right

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about here. Now most of that up is going to be a result of where their body is pivoting and how

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the upper body is behind the lower body and they're continued to go into side bend with that left

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shoulder and with the rib cage but you'll see the arms gently working up but as I'll also working

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out towards the target that's what helps keep that club low to the ground through the hitting

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area and help develop that flat spot that we like to measure on 3D with the arc with graph

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and we can take a look at Rory and we can see him. There's the line roughly at the top of the

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wrists again. If any time you're using video we're looking for rough pictures we're not looking to get

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any real accurate measurements but you can see those hands at the top of the hands working

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kind of more across and towards the target and slightly working up through the hitting area

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as they continue to work out. So if you're struggling with understanding the wipe and trying to be

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able to visualize it this is a great way to kind of reference it. The two reference points would be

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when that shaft is parallel to the ground notice how if you were to draw a line from the

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outside the shoulders if this is truly face on. The more that the hands are kind of in front of the

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body the more that you've executed the wipe and the arms have worked across your body

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because we know that they were not in front of your body up at the top of the swing. The more that your

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hands are in this space behind the line or even back there we know that your arms have worked a

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little bit too soon and more of a cast pattern and kind of getting away from your body.

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Secondly if we draw that line the more that the hands are kind of just gently working up as they

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cruise across that line the more we know that we're going to have the arc width continue to increase

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and we're going to tend to have a really good kind of brushing in the ground in good

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turf contact and the more that those arms extend on the way through that's going to help us with the

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solidness of our strike as well as our consistency. So if you're having any trouble with any of the

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movements discussed in this video please let us know and we'll point you in the direction of videos or

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film one to clarify what we're talking about.