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Live Q&A: Transition Faults and Fixes - April 29, 2018

Live Q&A discussing member questions regarding transition faults and correction strategies. 

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all right welcome to another edition of

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the YouTube live question and answer if

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you have any questions post them in the

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comment section below if this is your

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first time please put your name and

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where you're where you're listening from

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I've got a handful of questions that

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we'll go through and we'll go through

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the ones related to transition because

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the the theme of this class or this

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little YouTube event is talking more

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about what's happening during transition

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so if I get through all those then I can

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address some of the other questions

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related to fitness or puttting cetera

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but I had a real fun event this week

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where we at the Club hosted Stan Utley

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so I got to watch him do two clinics now

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I've known Stan for about eight years he

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and James Siegman have been kind of the

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two biggest influences on my short game

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technique other than the 3d data of

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tours that of Tour Pros that I've seen

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and just kind of my own coaching in

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Anatomy experience but I've really

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picked up a lot from his class if you if

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you get a chance and he's ever in your

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area highly recommend you spending three

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hours with him and hearing what he says

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has to say about the short game every

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attendee he really liked it there's a

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we're already trying to get him to come

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back so thanks again Stan be sure to

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check them out okay so now without

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further delay let's get into some of the

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transition questions so Jason who's

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working through some stuff

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asked about the overall shape so

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basically in my book that the right arm

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is going to go kind of wide in the

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backswing narrow during transition and

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then wide during the release so his

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question was ignoring the body more so

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from the arms what contributes to that

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wide narrow wide look so there's there's

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a number of different factors that can

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contribute to the narrowing during

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transition the most prominent would be

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the bending of the trail arm so the

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right elbow increasing its flexion the

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extension of the lead wrist so the lead

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wrist will tend to extend an additional

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let's say 10 to 15 degrees or so during

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transition the left arm will have a

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movement where it basically comes across

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your chest so in adduction and the left

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forearm will have a pronation or

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rotation this way so in combination the

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club is this far away as I extend my

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wrist bend my arm bring it across now

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the club is much closer to my Center

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than where it was at the top of the

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swing now most of those movements happen

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because there's weight with this club

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that's attached to my hands and when my

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body starts to shift shift pressure and

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start rotating in the direction of the

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target it creates this lag movement

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because of the weight holding my arms

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back it doesn't mean that my arms are

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pulling away one of the analogies or the

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images that I like to use a lot is a

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javelin thrower you don't want to pull

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the javelin back you want to run away

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from the direct javelin so you want to

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stretch the muscle while it's still

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trying to go in that direction same

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thing applies here during that

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transition my arms are trying to throw

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down towards the club or towards the

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golf ball my arms are trying to apply

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force around my body in the direction of

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the target but they're getting left

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behind me from my body so it creates

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these shortening movements but not

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because I'm actively pulling it away

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sometimes when you're first learning it

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and working through it in drills you'll

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have to actively do it just to get used

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to those positions but then when you

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start adding your body back in it should

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become more of a passive movement his

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second question was what are they in

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act effects of having too much right arm

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too early in the downswing well the

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first let me go on on record or I'm

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already on record but let me restate I

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think that a cast is more of a right arm

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problem than a left arm problem for a

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right-handed golfer and I think that

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it's more of either a straightening of

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the right elbow early or a protraction

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of the right shoulder that one's kind of

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come on my radar in the last year or a

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flexion of the trail row so basically

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anything going that way a Caston is not

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early release or early unhinging you've

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kind of been I want to say fed a lie but

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I've got a handful of 3ds of really long

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hitters who are decreasing the amount of

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ulnar early during transition because

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the wrist is going into flexion but

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they're increasing the look of lag

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because of the trail risk going into

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extension many amateurs start going into

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flexion sorry

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the trailer is going to extension many

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amateurs go into flexion early in

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transition and that becomes a problem

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because going into flexion early during

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transition not only gets the club moving

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away from you and cast the parachute

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that's going to slow you down a bit but

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it also opens the clubface so that

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opening of the clubface requires that

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you do things to close it down later

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such as extend the arm or bring the

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handle back stall your body things that

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usually cause low point to get backward

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in the decrease power so the problem

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with getting too wide too soon is it

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limits your power production and it

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moves the low point backward so it

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limits your compression that can be

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great for a wedge shot or a short game

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shot but not so good when you're trying

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to create a lot of speed let's say a

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5-iron or 3-wood or something like that

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okay Mike asked about the Left tilt of

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the pelvis in the backswing and down

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swinging and asking basically why it's

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not emphasized in my program where other

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programs like like Chung web and the AMG

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guys tend to focus a lot on that left

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tilt of the pelvis what I've seen one 3d

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is that the left tilt of the pelvis

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you'll lose that left tilt of the pelvis

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a lot sooner or I should say a lot

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sooner but sooner than you lose the left

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hill of the thorax which will get us

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into the next question shortly so I feel

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that more of the the look of the left

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pelvis thing low is more from a good

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weight shift but if you actually look at

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the measurements it's typically going

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more towards they end up doing it more

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so with a forward lunge of their upper

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body going towards the target not so

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much with the pelvis I think if you have

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a really solid weight shift and you

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don't look like you stand up in your

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posture you you're gonna have a fine

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amount of left tilt with the pelvis that

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can be really relevant from a power

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creation standpoint but can cause

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problems for golfers who don't have good

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right tilt of the pelvis or the Jackson

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5 movement it can cause some some driver

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angle-of-attack issues if you're over

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emphasizing that that's my experience ok

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deal in embalm he asked about how do I

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work on the Left tilt without feeling

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like a dive or a lunch so the the left

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elephant transition is basically if

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you're looking from the down the line

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camera angle then as your weight is

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shifting this left shoulder and this

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left side of the rib cage is going to

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compress just slightly so one good way

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that I'll have golfers work on that left

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tilt is if you look at where you are it

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set up and you go to the top of the

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swing and you're going to try and get

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slightly lower with your chest than

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where you were at the top of the swing

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in order to do that you're going to

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start by getting that left tail you'll

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see it's a subtle movement right there

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but the net effect is your body is a

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little bit

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as opposed to golfers who tend to get

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taller what they're actually doing is

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before they go into flexion they're

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starting to go into right side Bend so

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it's more of an early extension kind of

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contribution I see a question coming in

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from Bruce Bruce asks for a caster that

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flexes the trail wrist is it okay to try

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to extend the wrist during transition

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now so you girls there's something else

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that needs to happen and order it for

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done naturally no I I definitely have

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golfers who work on feeling that that

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right wrist or trail wrist extends if

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you are if you're a caster and you're

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really limited with that movement you

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can't potentially strengthen the grip so

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it doesn't have to do it quite as much

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but ideally yes getting a little bit

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more of an extension feel really builds

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into some of the extension feels of the

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proper right arm kind of covering the

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ball as opposed to getting the shoulder

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too far behind and going into more of a

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flip pattern so it starts getting into

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that pattern earlier if you feel like it

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extends what can happen the only

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downside is if you feel like you extend

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it too much oftentimes

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that will cause you're like anytime

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you're overdoing the arm motions that'll

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tend to cause your body to want to stall

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and so you can really get into a steep

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angle of attack because you don't have

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enough body rotation to move the hand

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path left through the ball so that's the

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only thing that I would be working on or

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concerned about but absolutely I'm

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feeling a little active extension very

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transition is not a major problem

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ideally it'll happen a little bit more

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passively just like if I was throwing a

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ball the wrist goes into extension

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during transition but for starters

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getting used to that feeling can be a

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good pattern and I clean up a lot of

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transition issues by working on a good

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release because oftentimes if your brain

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has no concept of how to release the

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club or end of movement then starting it

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in the right

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direction doesn't really clean things up

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and more creates kind of a feeling of

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panic or confusion because you're good

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you're gonna struggle figuring out how

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to get down to the golf ball from there

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okay back to a couple of these

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transition questions so Brian was asking

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about what do you do if you have a

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shallow transition but then it gets

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steep after delivery position so shallow

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transition followed by steep release

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basically I've got a video on the site

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where I go through kind of the steep

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shallow timeline which is basically what

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creates steepness or shallowness at

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different parts of the swing so the

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shallowness of the arms in transition

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doesn't guarantee that you're going to

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have a shallow path down into the ball

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because what you could do is as you get

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down towards the bottom here the two

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main causes of getting steep during the

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release would be more of an upper body

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lunge which I'll show in a second and

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the two the second one would be a lack

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of unhinge so if I keep the extension of

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the or the radial deviation if I keep my

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wrist up like this and I rotate around

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more like that

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that will tend to cause a look of

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getting steep and it will tend to cause

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diggy contact and like a closed clubface

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situation in impact so you're gonna tend

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to have more pulls or pulled hooks so

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getting or letting the the owner

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deviation happen down through there

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continues the shallowing movement the

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other one is let's say I'm shallow there

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but then if the upper body gets too much

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on top of the lower body even if I'm

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fine hinging that can cause a look of a

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steep release as well so many golfers

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struggle with steepness down during the

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release which is one of the reasons I'm

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a bigger advocate on getting earlier on

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in

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in flexion of that lead wrist because

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that tends to set up a position where

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the club is in a shallow position and

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then you can really kind of pour on the

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rotation and steepening movements

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through impact okay two questions from

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just someone who goes by the name of

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ball striker so how how does the he's

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reading the book and I'm talking about

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the steeps and shadows and yes how does

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the arm lift in transition shallow the

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club so the the simple way to think

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about it is there's two major ways to

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look at shallowing the club in my

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opinion the more that the club swings

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horizontally as opposed to vertically

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horizontal is more shallow vertical is

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going to be more steep because the the

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club will be coming basically covering

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more distance horizontally than

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vertically if it's going more shallowly

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we're becoming covering more vertical

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distance than horizontal distance and

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we'll come in steeper the other option

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or the other way to look at it is the

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wider in my radius the wider my swing

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the further the club gets away from me

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the shallow where it's going to be and

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the closer it gets to me the steeper

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it's going to be so if I keep my arms in

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close and work vertically this is

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incredibly steep and if I extend my arms

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and lift them a little bit that will be

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incredibly shallow so the lift of the

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arm helps the club swing more

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horizontally which is the major reason

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why shallowing in transition or the arm

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staying high in transition where lifting

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in transition is a shallower now arm

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lift is defined by its relationship to

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the thorax or the chest so what will

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happen is as this is going down if my

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arm stays at the same height I'm now

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lifting my arm right if I've bent

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backwards like this I'm actually

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lowering my arm you can see the

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difference if I have this a little bit

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more down in my

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be easier if I bend way forward and then

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stood back up you can see that the arm

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lifted compared to my chest if I was

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here and I backbend even more you can

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see that angle narrowing so now if I

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stood back up I've actually lowered it

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so what many golfers do is they actually

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keep the arms up a little bit higher as

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their chest reflexes that's the same

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thing as basically increasing the lift

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of the arm about let's say five degrees

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or so

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well that lift of the arms does a great

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job for both getting the or forgetting

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the swing the club to swing more

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shallowly while my body is rotating and

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flexing because rotating and flexing or

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both Stephan errs so where that

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clarifies how the arm lift is a shallow

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move in transition sometimes it's hard

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to imagine but look at it compared to

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the chest not necessarily compared to

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the ground his other question was he has

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a difficulty visualizing or imagining

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the wipe so I thought I'd take a few

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minutes and kind of break that down I've

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got a number of videos on the white

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because I think it's a really critical

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move for good players to get out of a

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pull or a hook pattern and the wipe is

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basically the the simple way I explain

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the wipe is it's it's moving more around

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my body and going towards the target and

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instead of going straight towards the

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golf ball so if I imagine I had like you

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know let's say XY and Z you if I had one

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axis going straight out from my chest

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like this and I had one exit going

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towards the target I'm working more

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along the that access towards the target

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instead of the axis towards the golf

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ball it's primarily a right arm movement

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what many golfers many amateur golfers

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do is they get this arm more on the side

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of their body instead of out in front

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and then from the side of the body it

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tends to extend more out towards the

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golf ball

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what better players tend to do is

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if it gets to the side of the body then

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down through the ball it's working more

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across their body as the body is

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throwing it out towards the golf ball

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instead of the arm throwing it out

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towards the golf ball one way that you

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can see that is looking at actually two

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ways you can see it one is with the

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relationship of the hands compared to

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the body so right here you can see that

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my hands are well behind my body that's

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a delivery position but then at impact

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my hands will be more out in front of my

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chest as opposed to if they're behind my

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body and then at impact they're still

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behind my body the same amount that

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would be more of a lack of wipe so one

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of the examples that some golfers bring

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up is more of like a Jim Furyk who has

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it way back here but still has a really

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stable release and what you'll see is

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I'm not so it's not so much the position

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that the elbow has to get in front of

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your body it's just more that it's

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working around your body this way

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instead of straight out towards the golf

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ball so Jim Furyk gets the arm behind

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his body but then from about here it's

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working less behind his body less behind

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his body more in front of his body

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instead of way behind his body stay back

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there and extend towards the target

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which were towards the golf ball which

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is more of the pattern that a lot of

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amateur golfers that would do

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demonstrating a lack of the white

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movements so hopefully that helps

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imagine I used the the white movement is

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basically my term for getting the club

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back out in the front of the body and

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it's a sign that you're applying force

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more with your body and less with your

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hands so for those of you falling kind

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of a golf sign it's tough it's more of

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using the moment of force instead of the

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couple as the power source let's say

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right around this zone here okay so I

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wanted to jump to a few questions that

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are unrelated to transition

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from Fred Fred always has good questions

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both on the swing as well as on on

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fitness so I'll go through some of his

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that come in this week one quick

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question he asked was about low point

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practice so low point practice when

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you're working on mats if you're putting

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let's a piece of tape or a lie board or

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a towel about how far should you put it

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behind the golf ball so let's say I've

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got the golf ball on the mat just like

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so I would put the club just behind the

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golf ball like this and you'll see the

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club has some width to it I would

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basically add another half inch to an

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inch and put it back there so it'll be

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slightly different depending on what

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club you're hitting with but the general

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guide would be putting it let's say

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right about where my middle finger is

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there so it would probably end up being

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about an inch and a half two inches

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behind the golf ball depending on the

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club

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you asked about with putting the foot

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pressure so is it roughly the same or

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because of the tilt do you tend to have

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some shifting I've only seen two

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different putting pressure studies but

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from the guys who have talked to who do

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more of the data collection on putting

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it seems like it stays more a fairly

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constant in the left hind foot so even

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though there's a little bit of body

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movement they're almost countering that

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on a real subtle scale so the pressure

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stays more on that left heel or left

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hind foot you won't see any major weight

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shift when it comes to good putters I'll

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jump back to his fitness question here

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in a second so this is a question about

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the swing refers or his first question

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about the swing is looking at vertical

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head movement so vertical head movement

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basically looking at vertical sway

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during the swing what's the ideal

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pattern and so we I typically look at

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the

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4x because the head sensor isn't

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digitized at least not in the amm system

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so I go off of where is the chest or the

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center of this spot right here not so

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much the head so I could influence how

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high the head looks or the sensor looks

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based on how much I'm flexing extending

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where this one it takes more of the body

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movement so I feel like this is a better

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indicator as far as the the lift and

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thrust more so than the head so his

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question is about vertical movement

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typically during the backswing it's

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going to go down slightly that's largely

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because of the left shoulder tilt or

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left side Bend towards the top of the

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swing so it's going to go down let's say

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half inch to an inch it's going to

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continue to go down during transition so

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right to about there it'll reach its

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minimum somewhere around two inches or

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so but then coming back up into impact B

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it will end up about the same height so

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I usually say give or give or take or

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plus or minus half inch to an inch so it

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doesn't have a whole lot of vertical

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height change I tend to see a lot more

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with amateurs where it can go you know

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one to two inches up in the backswing or

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dive down and you know three to four

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inches during transition they tend to

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have bigger head movement and they they

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will in general tend to be taller at

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impact rather than a little bit lower

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and what I saw when I was doing my

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research for the world golf fitness on

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it was that the best wedge players

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tended to be about an inch taller at

00:24:00.280 --> 00:24:03.220
impact with most of their full swing

00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:05.830
motions where the best driver is a golf

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ball tended to be a little bit lower so

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lower than where they started so it's

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definitely not a one-size-fit-all

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it's all it depends on the pattern I

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don't like to see a wedge shot where

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you're going down too much and I don't

00:24:19.780 --> 00:24:21.490
like to see a driver swing where you're

00:24:21.490 --> 00:24:25.060
going up too much the finding that the

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the pattern that fits

00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:28.900
those swings takes a little bit more

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trial and error okay his next question

00:24:35.020 --> 00:24:38.560
is super-simple he was asking is his is

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it okay to have your head facing the

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target a little bit or should it be

00:24:42.630 --> 00:24:46.510
looking down at the golf ball at impact

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I definitely again I don't have a whole

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lot of head data but even just looking

00:24:52.750 --> 00:24:55.390
at videos having your head turned and

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looking at more towards the target is

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fine one of the study or one of the

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stories that stand up lady shared this

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week was that he and some of the golfers

00:25:08.290 --> 00:25:10.480
that he's coached have described that

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they have a very wide field of vision

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that they're not really focusing on one

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specific spot it's more of kind of

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seeing everything in the peripheral so I

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don't really care if your head is turned

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because I I think that having your head

00:25:25.210 --> 00:25:27.250
turn helps more with rotation and impact

00:25:27.250 --> 00:25:29.860
alignment then overly focusing on the

00:25:29.860 --> 00:25:31.750
golf ball overly focusing on the golf

00:25:31.750 --> 00:25:35.140
ball can create your body to want to

00:25:35.140 --> 00:25:39.940
lock down through impact so I would say

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that controlling low point it's probably

00:25:42.190 --> 00:25:45.460
easier if you are turning your body and

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if you need to turn your head a little

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bit in order to turn your body I would

00:25:48.460 --> 00:25:50.830
absolutely prefer that than keeping your

00:25:50.830 --> 00:25:53.170
eyes fixed on a certain spot but then

00:25:53.170 --> 00:25:56.430
not turning your body on the way through

00:25:56.430 --> 00:25:59.980
his uh his last swing question was is a

00:25:59.980 --> 00:26:02.830
little bit trickier I've got a video on

00:26:02.830 --> 00:26:06.090
the site where I go through the pressure

00:26:06.090 --> 00:26:08.020
patterns that you'll see through the

00:26:08.020 --> 00:26:09.880
feet but he was basically asking what

00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:11.770
are the ideal vectors during the swing

00:26:11.770 --> 00:26:14.770
from the face on and down the line the

00:26:14.770 --> 00:26:18.190
simple answer is it's the the direction

00:26:18.190 --> 00:26:20.740
that you're pushing against the ground

00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:23.740
is roughly the opposite of the movement

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so if I'm pushing if I'm starting to go

00:26:29.230 --> 00:26:31.990
up I'm gonna be pushing more down if I'm

00:26:31.990 --> 00:26:34.240
twisting to the left it means that my

00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:36.940
foot is twisting more against the ground

00:26:36.940 --> 00:26:39.250
to the right so typically what will

00:26:39.250 --> 00:26:40.140
happen

00:26:40.140 --> 00:26:42.660
is as you get towards the top of the

00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:46.050
backswing the the weight is going to be

00:26:46.050 --> 00:26:49.080
let's say somewhere around here the

00:26:49.080 --> 00:26:50.640
weight or the pressure through that

00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:53.130
right foot is going to be out a way from

00:26:53.130 --> 00:26:56.160
me this way or I'm and the vector would

00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:59.970
be going back up towards the target kind

00:26:59.970 --> 00:27:01.920
of on an angle more like that so I'm

00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:03.870
pushing against the ground as I'm

00:27:03.870 --> 00:27:07.350
rotating like this in order to slow down

00:27:07.350 --> 00:27:10.830
my body going that way and to then start

00:27:10.830 --> 00:27:12.840
my body moving in this opposite

00:27:12.840 --> 00:27:16.050
direction once I get to about this lead

00:27:16.050 --> 00:27:20.010
foot so once I get to the end of

00:27:20.010 --> 00:27:23.250
transition kind of in this zone here the

00:27:23.250 --> 00:27:27.330
the foot vector is now pushing back up

00:27:27.330 --> 00:27:29.700
away so it's angled slightly I'm I'm

00:27:29.700 --> 00:27:32.610
pushing at a slight angle away that way

00:27:32.610 --> 00:27:34.590
and I'm pushing at a slight angle away

00:27:34.590 --> 00:27:36.990
from me if I was to push backwards or

00:27:36.990 --> 00:27:39.260
towards I would kind of if I pushed

00:27:39.260 --> 00:27:41.430
behind me that would push me into the

00:27:41.430 --> 00:27:43.950
golf ball and if I pushed towards or

00:27:43.950 --> 00:27:45.630
away from the target that wouldn't move

00:27:45.630 --> 00:27:48.600
me more and more towards the target so

00:27:48.600 --> 00:27:51.000
that's the the clearest one is basically

00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.070
about here I need to be pushing on an

00:27:53.070 --> 00:27:55.380
angle kind of like that so from down the

00:27:55.380 --> 00:27:57.600
line which was this quest this is the

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the real big one is I would be pushing

00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:02.070
on an angle kind of about like that so

00:28:02.070 --> 00:28:04.200
it's not totally vertical it's kind of

00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:07.890
pushing away there that would set me up

00:28:07.890 --> 00:28:10.080
for bringing the force or moving away

00:28:10.080 --> 00:28:13.140
from the club swinging out towards the

00:28:13.140 --> 00:28:15.600
golf ball which will help give me more

00:28:15.600 --> 00:28:18.360
more force and more speed to basically

00:28:18.360 --> 00:28:21.780
pull that handle in towards the body by

00:28:21.780 --> 00:28:25.260
using a good body pivot so I'd say those

00:28:25.260 --> 00:28:27.330
are the big ones now his uh his last

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question was related to fitness and this

00:28:29.520 --> 00:28:32.900
one's a little bit trickier

00:28:32.900 --> 00:28:35.700
he asked about foam rolling and what are

00:28:35.700 --> 00:28:37.890
five to ten spots that I would focus on

00:28:37.890 --> 00:28:47.070
for golfers now my I would say that foam

00:28:47.070 --> 00:28:51.230
rolling can be a okay short-term

00:28:51.230 --> 00:28:52.740
solution

00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:55.290
but it's not my favorite tissue repair I

00:28:55.290 --> 00:28:58.050
tend to prefer myofascial stretching if

00:28:58.050 --> 00:28:59.400
you learn how to do really good

00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:01.559
myofascial stretching it has a much

00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:05.010
longer carryover in my experience so the

00:29:05.010 --> 00:29:07.290
problem I found with foam rolling with

00:29:07.290 --> 00:29:09.420
me and my clients was that they had to

00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:12.090
in order to get the benefit of foam

00:29:12.090 --> 00:29:13.290
rolling like they had to do it

00:29:13.290 --> 00:29:16.140
frequently really consistently where I

00:29:16.140 --> 00:29:18.630
think if you get into a good stretching

00:29:18.630 --> 00:29:19.980
program and you learn how to stretch

00:29:19.980 --> 00:29:22.530
properly after you've done kind of the

00:29:22.530 --> 00:29:24.750
repair phase and you've you've done it a

00:29:24.750 --> 00:29:26.880
little bit more intensely stretching

00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:32.790
once or twice stretching once or twice a

00:29:32.790 --> 00:29:35.760
week tends to do as much as what it felt

00:29:35.760 --> 00:29:38.460
like foam rolling every single day work

00:29:38.460 --> 00:29:44.670
like so what I would say is if you had

00:29:44.670 --> 00:29:47.190
to pick spots I would tend to go the the

00:29:47.190 --> 00:29:49.679
basically the big foam rolling spots I

00:29:49.679 --> 00:29:52.260
would tend to go calves I would tend to

00:29:52.260 --> 00:29:56.550
go quads glutes inner thigh and then

00:29:56.550 --> 00:29:58.559
really big one for golf would be armpit

00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:00.840
so getting Latin the Terry's groups and

00:30:00.840 --> 00:30:03.240
the pecs are basically doing all sides

00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:06.540
of the armpit and even there's a there's

00:30:06.540 --> 00:30:08.400
a common spot where the lat can get

00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:11.460
stuck here and that can really restrict

00:30:11.460 --> 00:30:13.559
your arm height which cause a whole host

00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:14.880
of problems so I would say that would

00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:18.720
probably be one of my favorite from

00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:22.610
rolling places but I think that it's

00:30:22.610 --> 00:30:24.570
again if you know how to stretch

00:30:24.570 --> 00:30:27.090
properly I think it's not as good as

00:30:27.090 --> 00:30:28.470
stretching so if you had to do the

00:30:28.470 --> 00:30:30.720
little time and resource management

00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:33.480
I would probably work more on learning

00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:35.970
how to stretch well and do less foam

00:30:35.970 --> 00:30:39.000
rolling okay now that being said his

00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:41.309
last question was about the lower back

00:30:41.309 --> 00:30:44.280
rotational stretch so basically like the

00:30:44.280 --> 00:30:46.620
back cracking stretch where you lay on

00:30:46.620 --> 00:30:50.970
the ground and kind of roll this side to

00:30:50.970 --> 00:30:55.350
me that's not a really clear like that's

00:30:55.350 --> 00:30:58.350
not stretching one specific muscle what

00:30:58.350 --> 00:30:59.970
when you get that back crack it's

00:30:59.970 --> 00:31:02.580
usually your SI joint that's actually

00:31:02.580 --> 00:31:05.760
getting and released so

00:31:05.760 --> 00:31:10.470
I think that your that back crack

00:31:10.470 --> 00:31:12.240
stretch doesn't do a good job of

00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:15.840
stretching anyone myofascial teen it

00:31:15.840 --> 00:31:21.090
really just it releases the the SI joint

00:31:21.090 --> 00:31:23.610
it's designed to stretch some of your

00:31:23.610 --> 00:31:25.140
lower back muscles but it doesn't I

00:31:25.140 --> 00:31:26.490
don't think it does a very good job boy

00:31:26.490 --> 00:31:28.710
so I'm not a fan of that now that being

00:31:28.710 --> 00:31:31.350
said I think there are some lower back

00:31:31.350 --> 00:31:35.070
rotational stretches that can be really

00:31:35.070 --> 00:31:38.970
effective for helping do some relief for

00:31:38.970 --> 00:31:41.850
back pain but if you are feeling stiff

00:31:41.850 --> 00:31:44.460
in the back then I would typically go

00:31:44.460 --> 00:31:47.520
after stretching your believer so as

00:31:47.520 --> 00:31:51.090
stretching your quads stretching your

00:31:51.090 --> 00:31:52.950
ribcage and making sure that your

00:31:52.950 --> 00:31:55.680
thoracic spine is pretty mobile so

00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:57.570
stretching your diaphragm stretching

00:31:57.570 --> 00:32:00.690
your intercostals making sure that all

00:32:00.690 --> 00:32:02.850
the areas surrounding your lower back

00:32:02.850 --> 00:32:05.550
are nice and flexible that's a much

00:32:05.550 --> 00:32:07.020
bigger that'll have a bigger

00:32:07.020 --> 00:32:08.850
contribution on your lower back

00:32:08.850 --> 00:32:13.350
stiffness rather than that that of

00:32:13.350 --> 00:32:17.010
basically SI joint Mobe stretch because

00:32:17.010 --> 00:32:18.570
the chances are that you're mobilizing

00:32:18.570 --> 00:32:20.070
in the right way or really slim so it's

00:32:20.070 --> 00:32:22.490
gonna provide some really short-term

00:32:22.490 --> 00:32:25.740
pain or tension relief but it won't have

00:32:25.740 --> 00:32:27.660
a big carryover a day to day so I would

00:32:27.660 --> 00:32:30.090
avoid that stretch and hopefully find

00:32:30.090 --> 00:32:36.300
some other good ones so I have to cut

00:32:36.300 --> 00:32:37.830
this one a little bit short because

00:32:37.830 --> 00:32:40.050
we're gonna get ready I'm gonna head out

00:32:40.050 --> 00:32:43.680
and watch The Avengers movie so

00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:46.590
hopefully I've deliberately stayed away

00:32:46.590 --> 00:32:49.830
from looking at any of the spoilers or

00:32:49.830 --> 00:32:51.990
trailers so hopefully it meets my

00:32:51.990 --> 00:32:54.390
expectations but thank you again for

00:32:54.390 --> 00:32:58.500
joining another golf smart Academy live

00:32:58.500 --> 00:33:01.800
Q&A a lot of the questions that lead to

00:33:01.800 --> 00:33:04.590
these Q&A is come from students who are

00:33:04.590 --> 00:33:06.690
reading the stock tour swing or have

00:33:06.690 --> 00:33:09.720
joined my website so I put a lot of

00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:13.340
thought and hopefully present the

00:33:13.340 --> 00:33:15.390
scientific research in a way that's

00:33:15.390 --> 00:33:18.330
digestible but if you if you have any

00:33:18.330 --> 00:33:19.290
questions if you're looking

00:33:19.290 --> 00:33:20.940
that please shoot us an email at support

00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:25.970
at golf smart academy.com I will be

00:33:25.970 --> 00:33:28.140
probably doing another one of these in a

00:33:28.140 --> 00:33:31.260
couple of weeks I see a question coming

00:33:31.260 --> 00:33:33.600
in real quick looks pretty easy so I'll

00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:37.740
answer it before I before I head out for

00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:38.870
the movies

00:33:38.870 --> 00:33:42.660
Lawrence law thank you for the

00:33:42.660 --> 00:33:44.250
compliment I'm glad you're enjoying my

00:33:44.250 --> 00:33:45.750
work I will definitely keep it up this

00:33:45.750 --> 00:33:46.530
is fun for me

00:33:46.530 --> 00:33:50.280
Golf junkie asks what is a good drill to

00:33:50.280 --> 00:33:52.860
avoid the right shoulder going down too

00:33:52.860 --> 00:33:55.070
much and coming from the inside too much

00:33:55.070 --> 00:33:57.960
so basically the right shoulder going

00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:00.420
more this way so the whole left crunch

00:34:00.420 --> 00:34:02.670
idea in transition is designed to

00:34:02.670 --> 00:34:05.540
address that particular issue

00:34:05.540 --> 00:34:10.919
so one exaggerated move is basically

00:34:10.919 --> 00:34:17.610
keeping the arms up so I got this camera

00:34:17.610 --> 00:34:21.270
where I got it but I got this as a it's

00:34:21.270 --> 00:34:23.400
basically a counter to that whole

00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:24.810
pattern there so you're gonna put the

00:34:24.810 --> 00:34:26.429
club on your shoulder just like this and

00:34:26.429 --> 00:34:28.980
then you will rotate your upper body and

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:32.190
then swing your arms down so it kind of

00:34:32.190 --> 00:34:34.530
like breaks the sequencing of using the

00:34:34.530 --> 00:34:36.540
body to bring the arms down instead

00:34:36.540 --> 00:34:38.100
you're gonna use the body and more of a

00:34:38.100 --> 00:34:40.830
rotational pattern then you'll use the

00:34:40.830 --> 00:34:42.720
arms after the body has triggered

00:34:42.720 --> 00:34:47.910
rotation either doing that or working on

00:34:47.910 --> 00:34:50.280
the upper body staying more flexed and

00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:54.300
the pelvis being more back those will

00:34:54.300 --> 00:34:57.180
have a big impact on the club coming too

00:34:57.180 --> 00:35:00.720
much from the inside so again thanks for

00:35:00.720 --> 00:35:03.000
the questions I really do have to get

00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:04.860
out today so if you have any other

00:35:04.860 --> 00:35:07.350
questions please just email them to

00:35:07.350 --> 00:35:09.300
support at Gotham Art Academy calm I

00:35:09.300 --> 00:35:11.520
will get back to you or save them for

00:35:11.520 --> 00:35:14.790
the next live Q&A thanks again for

00:35:14.790 --> 00:35:17.490
asking your questions and joining me on

00:35:17.490 --> 00:35:20.640
this journey to happier golfing have a

00:35:20.640 --> 00:35:23.030
good weekend

00:35:24.540 --> 00:35:26.600
you

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