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this insight is adjusting from a life of

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hockey so as i've been in colorado here

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for a while i've been working with more

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and more hockey players

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they tend to have a pattern just like

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those tennis players just like those

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baseball players tend to have a pattern

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so there's three major things that i see

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consistently with hockey players doesn't

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mean that you're going to see them with

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everyone but if

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you're a x hockey player and you

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struggle with these issues hopefully

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this will help you understand why and

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give you some strategies to work on them

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so the three major things that hockey

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players are going to do with the golf

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club is they're going to tend to

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sway a little bit off of the ball

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they're going to tend to keep the club

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face closed or restrict forearm rotation

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during the backswing and they're going

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to tend to have a forward lunge of the

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upper body so these are three big

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movements that are helpful when i'm

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hitting a slap shot but problematic when

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i'm swinging a golf club so the the sway

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is essentially going to be this lateral

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movement and typically their initiation

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which would be good with a hockey stick

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is going to be that closed-faced um and

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they will have some of the most

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closed-faced of anybody who i've ever

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measured on 3d

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but they'll tend to have closed face

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with a little bit of a sway

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as opposed to rotating and kind of

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letting my upper body turn into my trail

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side they tend to stay a little bit more

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lead side bent

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which by itself can make it uh

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problematic for hitting the driver um

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unless i have this major jump on the way

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down which a lot of them tend to do

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the other one that i've seen more and

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more and from talking to one of my

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ex-hockey players he says that this is

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actually encouraged in hockey

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of the sports this is one of the few

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that i never really played but

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during the hockey slap shot you're going

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to want to have your upper body drifting

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towards the net

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during the entire time you're not going

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to want to post up and go like so um

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because you have the tendency to fan or

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swing over top of the puck this upper

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body covering movement like so tends to

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let you hit behind it and then keep the

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blade close to the ice as it goes

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through the puck but when it comes to

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golf this can cause big time angle of

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attack issues as well as forcing you to

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cast both to

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hold off some of this face rotation

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and to shallow out the club from this

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steep upper body movement so they tend

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to struggle with what i think are some

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of the more

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annoying problems one of which being

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fat wedges

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because i'm taking it away closed and

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i'm forward lunging kind of like so i'll

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tend to fall into this early extension

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pattern late

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and get the path coming too much from

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the inside

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now with a hockey slap shot i can hit

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behind it and

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that actually helps with a slap shot but

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the problem is with a golf club if i'm

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if i do that if i come from the inside

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and have the club bottom out behind it

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i'll typically get leading edge strikes

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so i'm going to get

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laying sod or i'm going to pull my arms

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in i'm going to blade it so if you're

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working on getting out of hockey

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and becoming more of a golfer one of the

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things that i would recommend is working

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on this stable pivot which we teach

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during the backswing in the transition

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section

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and then working on having a little bit

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more forearm rotation

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on the way back

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by letting it open up kind of like so

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it'll allow you to

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square it um

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without using that forward lunge and

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that forward lunge

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can be great for

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iron play it can be great for a few

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specific shots

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but

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typically hurts your wedges typically

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hurts your driver and so i think it's

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kind of one of those problems you want

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to get out of so if you're coming from

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hockey you got to learn to let the club

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face rotate a little bit more you've got

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to learn to stabilize your pivot

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and usually you'll have to work on a

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little bit of this early extension

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pattern but if you do i promise you can

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find that this game is just as fun and a

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lot less dangerous

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something that you can do well into your

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older years so good luck adjusting from

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a life of hockey into a life of golf