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in this golf smart insight we're gonna

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talk about adjusting from a life of

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tennis so if you are a new golfer or if

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you're a golfer who's kind of plateaued

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I like to ask in a when I interview

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golfers I like to ask what other sports

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they played there are a couple sports

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that can provide great platforms for

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golf and there's some that are so close

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that they can pose a few problems tennis

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is one of those hybrid ones where I

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think that it can pose some really good

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advantages especially being able to use

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your lower body but it can pose some

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problems and some barriers that can make

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it tough for you to get into the elite

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level of golf so let's talk about what

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the three main problems will be

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transitioning from playing tennis to

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playing golf and the reason you're gonna

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have these problems is basically the way

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your brain stores patterns it it can

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very often see swinging this this golf

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club the same way as swinging this

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racquet and so it will use a lot of kind

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of the already established patterns from

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your days of playing tennis so there's

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three major issues that I see when

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tennis players start to play golf one in

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tennis your weight is almost always

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moving in towards the court so when I'm

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hitting a forehand when I'm hitting a

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backhand I'm kind of moving in from my

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heel to my toe

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very often tennis players will tend to

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have kind of this subtle drift in

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towards their toes they might not fall

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over like I did there but they will tend

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to have this kind of little drift in

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towards their toes which is one of the

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platforms for early extension that can

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cause a number of contact issues that

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can come up cause a number of

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consistency issues and can make wedges

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and kind of tight lies that much more

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difficult which is one of their usual

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problems number two is the release

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there's actually probably the biggest

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one and the hardest one to change in my

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opinion so in tennis we talked a lot

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about this kind of windshield-wiper

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movement where basically I'm gonna turn

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to where the ball is going to be coming

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I'm gonna have my body unwind creating

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this little

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Lag move and then my release is going to

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be on about the angle of a car

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windshield going across kind of like a

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windshield wiper at least if I'm using a

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you know a more modern technique or more

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modern grip well that problem there the

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release point the contact point is going

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to be almost behind my body or even with

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my body so what I like to consider it

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it's much more of a shoulder release

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than it is a wrist release if you were

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to make the good golf release that I

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talked about in my program with a tennis

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racquet in your hand you would pretty

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much hit every ball outside of the court

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like over the fence into traffic so

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oftentimes tennis players will have this

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look of this arm being very disconnected

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kind of back like there because that's

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exactly how we use a tennis racket

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instead of a golf club and then third is

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going to be this lack of sensitivity of

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subtle lateral movement because in

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tennis you're kind of always shifting

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back and forth kind of ready to react so

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tennis players when they come to play

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golf will often have a fair amount of

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sway as part of their trigger or they

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may have slide as part of their release

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but they'll have a fair amount of this

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lateral movement now one of the other

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kind of two or three a that works with

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the slide move is the most powerful

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movement in tennis is going to be your

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serve and so tennis players get very

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very comfortable in this backbend

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position as a place of power so

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oftentimes tennis players will have this

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little sway reverse spine and now I'm

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almost in my tennis serve position and

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then I can kind of go from there and

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that encourages me to going towards my

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toes so tennis players tend to struggle

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with some of these the release tends to

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cause more of the slice pattern and then

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these two big body movements in towards

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my toes and lack of lateral sensitivity

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tends to cause consistency early

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extension lots of contact problems so if

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you're a really good tennis player

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you're gonna have a hard time getting

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below about a 5 handicap until you can

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separate

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what you do with a tennis racket and

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what you do with a golf club so I've had

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a number of these guys in in my teaching

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career and when you get it clear it can

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really flip some light bulbs for them

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but when they go away and let's say they

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have a tennis tournament and they

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practice a lot of tennis when they come

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back some of these things are gonna

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creep back into their game so always be

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aware of how the other sports are going

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to affect your golf game because the

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brain is storing these patterns you're

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not just building muscle memory