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in this video we're gonna discuss grip

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to sternum location so I had a question

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about how guys like John ROM will have a

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more of a bowed wrist or Jordan speith

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will have a really bowed wrist with a

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weak grip and then how someone like a

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Dustin Johnson will have a bowed wrist

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with strong grip and sohow grip

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orientation relates to the top of the

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swing position unfortunately there's not

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a really clear correlation between

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starting grip and top of the swing

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position but there's a really really

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strong almost intimate relationship

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between where the sternum is at impact

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and where the hands are at impact and

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part of that is because there's a very

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small margin of where the club is going

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to be at impact in order to have a solid

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you know torque quality shot and

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therefore there are only so many

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different body and wrist orientations I

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could use to get in that position for

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example let's say the club is gonna be

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just slightly leaning forward kind of

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roughly like this if I was to get my

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body in a good tour impact position and

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then put my hands on the club there

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there are only so many different ways

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you'll see in order to get some of these

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orientations I end up having to move my

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sternum so in order to keep it there

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there's a there's a smaller window than

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you would expect

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so if I take a normal kind of neutral

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grip about twenty-five degrees of

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extension of the of the lead wrist and

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then fairly neutral with that trail

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wrist and I get into that tour impact

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position you'll see that the hands and

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examples we're going to use two major

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references we're going to look at where

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is the upper body in space for that

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we're gonna use the reference of the

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sternum but we'll see more of that from

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the down the line and from the face on

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view we'll be able to see the strength

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of the Grippit set up so where is how

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much extension do we have in that lead

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wrist or in the weak grips how much

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flexion and how much has that changed to

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impact or looking at where the bees are

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pointing at setup that can be helpful as

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well so both of these golfers have

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stronger

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ten groups Dustin definitely has a

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stronger right hand grip Ben Matt Kuchar

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has more of a neutral right-hand grip to

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accompany that strong left hand so what

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we'll do is we'll take them from set up

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to impact and we can see that Dustin had

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a lot of extension in his lead wrist at

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setup and then at impact it's pretty

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much flat so he's flexed his lead wrist

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a good amount and he's accompanied that

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with a fair amount of body rotation we

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can see that his chest or sternum is

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pointing well out in front of the golf

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ball that'll be the face on view will

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have a better view of how strong or how

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weak the grip actually is but from it

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looking at impact position if we kind of

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imagine almost perpendicular to the

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spine you can see that Mac Cooter's

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sternum would be pointing kind of just

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out in front of the golf ball where

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Dustin Johnson went hitting this Drive

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has his sternum pointing way out in

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front of the golf ball it now makes

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sense seeing how open he got his sternum

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that he could have such a strong grip

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but have it bowed at the top of the

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swing and still fairly flat or so now if

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we take John ROM and get him close to

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impact or actually we can probably get

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him right at impact you'll see that

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we've got a similar-looking sternum

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position you'll see that

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Dustin's a little bit more open but

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you'll see that for all intents is you

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can see about the same amount of the rib

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cage you can see it's kind of on about

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the same tilt their legs and pelvis have

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done a little different but we can see

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that the rib cage or the sternum which

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is our reference point is in a closest

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position so they've used their grips to

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get the club back to kind of a similar

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position and the way they did it is

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Dustin Johnson had a stronger grip and

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then bowed a fair amount john rom had a

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weak grip and bowed a ton and one trend

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you'll see from looking at a lot of the

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Tour Pros is that if you have a weak

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grip there's no way around it you pretty

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much have to bow that

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wrists in order to get good tour impact

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conditions but if you have a strong grip

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you can either bow and use a lot of body

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rotation or not bow that we'd wrists

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keep that wrist relatively neutral and

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not have as much body rotation but

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hopefully this video helped you to see

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kind of the relationship between where

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the body is an impact and how it relates

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to the grip if you stay behind the golf

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ball and you rotate you'll need to close

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the club face to accommodate either with

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a stronger grip or bowing the wrist or

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both and if you lunge and if you don't

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rotate then you're not gonna want to

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have a really flat left wrist or you're

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going to want to gravitate towards a

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weaker grip