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I'm not saying that the body isn't important to the golf swing. It absolutely is important. But with all the talk of the kinematic sequence, the 3D motion of the spine, and other measurements of the body, I think a lot of golfers and instructors are missing a big piece of the puzzle. In this video, I give you an exercise to see why I put an emphasis on the movements of the arms, and teach the body as a supporting role to what the arms want to do.
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in this golf smart insight we're going
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to talk about the relationship between
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the body and the arms so I'm going to
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give you a fun little exercise that I
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got from Peter Kostis at the World Golf
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Fitness summit a couple of years back so
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you're going to get up out of your
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chairs if you can otherwise you're going
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to wait and do it later but here's a
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little example to illustrate whether you
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should be thinking about your arms your
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body or what okay so you're going to
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imagine that you're standing in front of
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a blackboard and you got an eraser in
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your hand okay and there's chalk all
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over the blackboard and you're going to
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try to clean it up okay so basically
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you're going to start with one as a
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baseline where you're just going to move
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your arm kind of in wax on wax off type
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circles and you're just going to do it
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nice and smoothly and you just want to
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pay attention to your body okay I kind
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of feel how it's moving there now option
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one you're going to try to do it faster
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okay so I'm going to say just focus on
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getting the hand in the eraser to move
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as fast as you can okay it's going to be
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a little bit like a body blade type
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thing you're going to get a little core
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workout so you're moving all over
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cleaning the blackboard okay good
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option two now what I'm gonna have you
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do is you're going to try and move your
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arm the same just relaxed pace you were
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doing before but you're going to try to
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move your hips to speed up your arm so
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you're gonna you're going to try to time
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exactly when to move your hips and if
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you're anything like most people who
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have done this with you'll look like I
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just did a little uncoordinated so the
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way that the brain tends to work is
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based on some neural input and things
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like that well your hands have a ton of
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neural sensors to them so we have these
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pathways to help control where my hands
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are where if you start with your
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attention more in your hips it can be a
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little bit trickier to try to then
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connect it back to your arm if your
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attention isn't there so here's where
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this makes sense with golf a lot of golf
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instruction has drifted more into what
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the body's doing right well the problem
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with that is we don't have a ton of
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neural input there we have a lot of
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neural input in the hinge so if you can
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learn how to get your hand path if you
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can learn how to get your hands to a
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celery correctly how to create all that
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speed and leg and transfer that energy
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just that the rat at the last moment to
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the golf ball your body will tend to do
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what it's supposed to do now part of the
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reason why I think that we shifted a lot
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to the body was some of the early 3d
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stuff now I'm guilty this because I was
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one of those early 3d guys and our first
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systems pretty much only measured either
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the thorax or the pelvis right if you
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look at the cave s the original AMM the
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original Golf biodynamic system they
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primarily measured the thorax and the
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pelvis so we started to be able to
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measure what those were doing and we
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tell you hey you need to move this
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differently but going back to that
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blackboard analogy it it it's hard to
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connect the two if you're not quite sure
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what your arms should be doing as well
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so with the latest versions of either
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the golf by n dynamics or the AMM or if
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you have one of the expensive you know
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Vikon optical systems we can measure now
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how the arms and the hands are actually
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moving and I have had a lot of success
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teaching people how to use their arms
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and hands correctly which helps get the
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body to do the right things where I
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would reach roadblocks when I would give
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them the right exercises I knew we could
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get the body moving but the hands just
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wouldn't end up in the right position
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and they wouldn't hit the ball solidly
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so you'll see in these in my site I talk
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a lot about the details of how the arms
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and the hands work because once you have
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a clear picture of how the arms and
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hands work the body will unfold and make
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a whole lot more sense