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This concept video is discussing the forward lunge.

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Now the forward lunge is a common component to an overall cast pattern.

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It shows up on video of an excessive movement of the upper body in front of the golf ball

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or compared to the lower body.

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So basically I've got this stick right here in line just about like this.

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The forward lunge could show up early in transition where the upper body just moves too much

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on top of the lower body like this or it could show up later.

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So if I got down to about here and then kept sliding that upper body forward.

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But a forward lunge is an excessive movement of the upper body towards the target.

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Now it's not quite as simple as just oh you need more Jackson 5 you need more side

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bend because depending on the timing of when it happens in your swing it could be from a variety

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of movements.

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And the easiest way is to help coordinate that is using something that helps you with your upper

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body awareness.

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And what you'll find is if you use something in front of your ear or to keep you more

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centered and when you do that you start hitting it fat then it's a good sign that your forward

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lunge is coming more from low point control and how you're releasing the club and less

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from power.

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And if you look at the video and you tend to see more of the upper body lunge early

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it's more of how you're creating power.

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And basically what's happening is you're using your upper body and usually that left

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shoulder to kind of pull on the club down in that direction almost like I was kind of pulling

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on a chain.

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If it's an early forward lunge associated more with power then what you need to do is

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you need to get more of the initial movement happening from the lower body.

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This is where the idea is of keeping your upper body close or back to the target or more

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of having a little bit of a bump can help with that early transition forward lunge.

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But if you're having that forward lunge movement down late it usually means that you're

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having more of a flip or a scoop style of arm movement and that forward lunge is going to

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get you far enough ahead so that you don't hit it fat because if you had that more scoop

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style where you don't have very much shaft rotation right so it just kind of is passing

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more like this and you have that timing of pushing on it more with your right hand going

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into internal rotation.

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If you did that and you were in a good kind of side bend where your upper body is behind

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your lower body then what would happen is you would typically bottom out well behind the

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golf ball and then if you were to have some face closing you would hit massive holes

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and pull ups so that upper body lunge is a I want to say it's a tricky issue but it can show

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up either from how your body likes to create power a dominance of the upper body compared

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to the lower body or how your body likes to control the swing the release and the bottom

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of the swing as more of a lunge to accompany that scoop.

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From a pure body perspective that forward lunge can show up in a couple different directions

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so if I were to just drop the club there it's not the same thing as just having side

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bend because if I have side bend and then I rotate I still have a bunch of side bend

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but you can see that my upper body has gone forward so even though you can see that my

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shoulders are down from the face on camera you can still see I still had a bunch of side

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bend so what'll happen is at the top of the swing the forward lunge comes more from

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not having enough of that lower body movement not side bend because side bend would

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move me this way in the middle zone if I do have more of the lunge kind of this way now

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my body is roughly facing the camera so yes now it would be more of a side bend movement

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that we keep me moving forward but as I get down closer and closer to impact and into

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the follow-through if I have the appearance of lunging forward it's more from not having

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enough of the extension of my legs and hips or even some in my spine basically I'm not

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getting into a good bracing position where I'm angled away from the target so I can have

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side bend and still lunge if I had poor hip extension so like I said it can be a little bit

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tricky but once you identify the cause it usually cleans up either with some transition

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sequencing maybe a little arm shallowing or at the very least working on some good release

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mechanics but if you have the forward lunge accompanying your cast and you've done a bunch of drills

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working on the cast component you may have to work on the forward lunge in a layer to ultimately

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solve your problem so a swing with a lunge kind of more that's one of my versions I'll do

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that one had more of a pull draw to it I'll do the over the top swing with the lunge

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there's a little steeper well-outfighting big slice and then we'll do a swing without a lunge

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and more like that