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Live Q&A With Tyler Ferrell - Dec 7th, 2017

Live Q&A discussing a handful of member questions about the golf swing.

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okay so I appreciate everyone joining me

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for the first of hopefully many of these

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little live Q&A sessions I've got a

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bunch of questions that came in through

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email so I'll I'll address some of those

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but I'll be checking out the the chat

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the whole time so please you know if

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something comes up if I say something

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you want it clarified or it relates to a

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question you might have please type it

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in I've had a number it looks like as

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far as a general theme it looks like the

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majority of the questions are related to

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transition so we'll kind of make that

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the theme of of today's little session

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I'm planning for you know somewhere

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around 20 minutes or so but if questions

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keep coming in will will go a little bit

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longer and like I said hopefully this is

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the first of many so I'll uh I'll jump

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right in one of the one of the questions

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that I see popping up is relating to

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transition of of the arms and there were

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a couple different questions related to

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whether it's you know the direction that

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you're pulling whether down versus up or

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the timing there there seems to be a

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movement in golf instruction we're

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creating too much lag creating too much

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leg late in the downswing is being

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advocated as a bad thing so I I thought

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that I'd just kind of discussed that

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from my perspective okay so in a lot of

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other sports sequencing and rhythm are

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largely used as ways to coordinate how

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you get up certain parts of your body to

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work together right so in golf the the

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angle of the club that lag angle has

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been I don't want to say overdone but

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it's been served it's been used as a

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reference so golfers who tend to have

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tend to have

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more of this look of lag tend to hit it

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further but what happened was we would

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see the look of lag and golf instructors

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would tell golf students to essentially

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try and increase or create more leg I

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have a few videos on the site relating

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to leg that that might help clarify and

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show different perspectives on it but

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one of the one of the big points for me

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to to address is that when you try to

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increase the angle when you try to pull

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the club back like so what typically

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happens is that lead wrist is going to

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go into extension when that lead wrist

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goes into extension that's going to have

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an effect of opening the club face and

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so what'll happen is golfers who try to

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hold and increase the leg tend to get in

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a situation where the clubface is in an

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open position late in the downswing

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well if the club is in an open position

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late in the downswing you're gonna have

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to do something pretty dramatic to try

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to close it what most people end up

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doing is they stall their body rotation

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because body rotation delays the closing

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of the clubface and then they cast the

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wrist or they they kind of straighten

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the arms or they get into more of a

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scoop pattern because scooping will

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close the club face gets that two point

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more so here it's pointing off to the

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right there it's pointing more to the

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left so a scoop

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while many many have talked about a

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scoop as holding the face open it does

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actually close the face it just doesn't

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do it rotationally so the one of the

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other questions relating to okay if leg

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too long can be a problem then what's

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the what's the intention so what what

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are players trying to do when they

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create a look of lag if they're not

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trying to create a lookalike I like to

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think of it more as proper sequencing is

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going to help create the look of lag and

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soft enough arms will also help create

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that look of leg

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I go back to looking at other sports and

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if you're teaching someone to throw

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you're never really going to teach them

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to try and maximally extend that wrist

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and hold the wrist back as you're going

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to throw what you would teach is leading

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with the lower body following with the

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the shoulder and then lastly the arm so

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sequencing will obviously have a big

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effect in how well you're able to get

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that look of leg

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not just actively holding the wrist back

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holding the wrist back to aggressively

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will trigger some signals to stop your

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ribcage to help stabilize the arms so

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that they can apply more force and so

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that combination usually creates face

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control issues down at the bottom

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because as I said if I increase that

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extension of the wrist I increase or I

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open up the face compared to the past so

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then what happens is I get down to the

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bottom the club face is open and I have

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to close it in an incredibly fast amount

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of time and it uh it creates a lot of

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variability the metaphor that I learned

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from John Hardy that I think is

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brilliant is it's like if you were to

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turn up the sensitivity of your mouse

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right so if you if you've got your mouse

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and you make like a little movement but

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the cursor goes flying all the way

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across the screen you have to be really

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precise with how you're going to move

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the mouse now what we want to do with

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our golf swing is we want to turn down

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the sensitivity of the mouse we want to

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turn down the sensitivity of the

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clubface closing or or opening but

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basically we want to turn down the

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sensitivity of our movements to - how it

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relates to where the club face is

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pointing so that we don't have to be

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quite as precise as when that mouse

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sensitivity is turned way up because we

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all know that when you get under the gun

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when you get a little bit of pressure

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you're gonna have probably some tougher

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times keeping the same rhythm keeping

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the same level of intensity okay so

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another question as it relates

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to this transition all right as it

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relates to the transition would be you

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see that some instructors okay let's say

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a common problem is getting the arms

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behind you in a stuck position right so

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some instructors advocate getting the

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arms back in front so kind of holding

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the body back like saying you've got to

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overactive legs or your lower body is

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too active and you need to quiet that a

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bit you need to slow down your body so

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that the arms can catch up and then you

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have other instructors who say no you

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don't want to quiet your lower body what

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you'd rather do is you want to use the

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lower body differently so this one

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relates more to how you're creating

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speed in that transition rather than the

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the actual effect of the clubface as we

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discussed in kind of that first

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transition segment so ideally you want

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to be using your body as a whole team

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right you want to be using your legs

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with your core with your ribcage with

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your shoulders with your arms and if

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you're it's not so much that your lower

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body gets too too active what happens is

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if your lower body really kind of spins

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out of the shot your ribcage gets

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disconnected from your your pelvis and

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so what usually happens is then the

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ribcage gets disconnected and then the

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arms kind of go on their own so instead

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of having a link between the lower body

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the pelvis the ribcage and the arms you

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have like a broken connection system and

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so usually those broken connection

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systems cause contact problems or timing

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problems down at the bottom of the swing

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so the two solutions are the one camp of

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basically okay if you get your arms more

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in front of your body that typically

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requires you to connect your ribcage and

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your pelvis better so you're you're

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using your abs you're using your core in

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order to get those arms more in front so

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helps with the sequencing and oftentimes

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you're not really gonna slow down your

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lower body quite as much as you think

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you're just speeding up your upper body

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to kind of get it to match match up a

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little bit better the the other option

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would be you take someone whose lower

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body is getting too active oftentimes

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when it gets too active it has either

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too much of a thrust component or it has

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too much of a slide component so you

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teach instead of actively going that way

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to actively stay a little bit more in

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the box or or keep the pelvis away from

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the golf ball and to have more of a

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rotation component because again most of

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the muscles that are going to rotate the

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bot the upper body with the lower body

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are connecting the ribcage to the pelvis

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so if you're I'm a big fan because I

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know most you're thinking well which one

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do I try I'm a big fan of testing so I

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like to try both and see which one

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relates to your specific movement better

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right so if you if you do the upper body

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one

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let's talk kind of more dangers so like

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why would I not want to do a certain

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pattern some golfers when they try to

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get the upper body more in front lose a

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lot of their path control and at like a

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downswing checkpoint instead of the club

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being in line with the hands it gets

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outside the hands or they're pulling

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down by using instead of getting the

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arms in front by using and the shoulders

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they'll pull it down using the wrist and

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they'll tend to get that lead wrist into

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a little bit more extension position so

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trying to get those arms in front could

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potentially cause some path issues or

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some face issues as far as the getting

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more more turning a lot of that I'm a

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big fan of matching pieces so matching

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your steeps in your shallows and if a

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slide and an extension so an overactive

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lower body tend to create shallow

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patterns then what will happen is

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sometimes if you take those patterns

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away the club

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get steep it'll be a pure path problem

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the club will just get a little bit

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steeper as it enters the release and so

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what you have to do is you have to give

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it a separate a separate shallow or a

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new movement to balance out the pattern

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because we took away some form of

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shallow you got to add one back in or

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else you're gonna be steep the most

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common one which actually gets to one of

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the other questions which is I did a

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video on cello position shallow

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movements and there was a question about

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Fred Couples like what movements is he

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doing so the if you keep your body more

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in the box and you're really kind of

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powering it with the body then your arms

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have to provide some of the shallow or

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else you would get steep and so the two

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main movements that you'll see on 3d are

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or at least on a mm3d systems you'll see

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a pronation of the lead wrist so it'll

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rotate this way about 10 maybe up to 15

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degrees and the tricky one is the you'll

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see a pronation of the trail wrist and

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an extension of the trail wrist so

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you'll actually see the trail wrist go

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like that and I know that if I see that

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pattern that's a sign that there

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shallowing from that trail shoulder but

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unfortunately the shoulders are really

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tricky to measure so you have to you

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have to really coordinate or you have to

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interpret the graphs so when this is

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going that way what that usually means

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is that the shoulder was going more like

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that and it's that shoulder external

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rotation and adduction that kind of

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helps create the force on the club that

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gets the club to drop behind when I when

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I see a golfer that I think is too

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shallow what usually happens because I

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can sorry I'm answering Jason's question

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that popped up so when when I see a

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golfer that is considered too shallow

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what's usually happened is that the the

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shallow movements from the body are

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preventing some of the

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low point control movements that I would

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like to see during the release basically

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usually a golfer who gets too shallow is

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going to have either too much side Bend

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or too much extension and both of those

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are going to prevent the ribcage and

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thoracic rotation through the shot and

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that's one of the other patterns that I

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tend to see on 3d which is the upper

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body moving faster than the arms faster

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than the pelvis through the shot for

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more consistent golfers where it'll be a

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little bit slower for golfers we tend to

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have higher clubface variability and it

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relates to the arc with graph and the 3d

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flat spot and getting the bottom of the

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swing you know shallowly out and in

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front of the in front of impact all

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right so let me let me scroll back up

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and address a couple of these long-term

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drunken monkeys I have a long-term issue

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where my arms collapse in transition and

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both arms Bend excessively do you have

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any drills training aids which I'll

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maintain width during that part of swing

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so there are there are a number of

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golfers the the most prominent example

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would be like a Jason Day but I've

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worked with a number of mini-tour

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caliber players who get a fair amount of

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this kind of Bend look through

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transition I don't think it's necessary

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I don't think it's optimal if

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consistency is our main goal but it's a

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big power source so like guys like Jason

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Day or the players who have worked with

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hit the ball a long way what can happen

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is if it does it too much it's usually

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accompanied by a little bit more of a

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kind of scoop style or release which for

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me is the bigger problem for that

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pattern but if you're trying to get the

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the arms to stay a little bit wider than

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what you have to do is you have to

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create more of the hand movement from

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ribcage rotation or from using your core

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so imagine that you're in the gym and

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you're doing like a horizontal chop that

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would be creating speed and movement

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more with my abs more with my spine

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rotation and less from my arms pulling

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right my arms pulling is more of a lat

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or a upper back style pattern of

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creating force in the club so I've had

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more success with doing for working on

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that pattern doing two things really

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working on getting the earlier shaft

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rotation because the earlier shaft

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rotation if you then pull in narrow you

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tend to hit really bad poles so it

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forces you to too shallow and pretty

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much every shallower also opens the

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clubface so by getting that shaft

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rotation it'll it forces you to get more

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of the shallow which then puts your arms

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in a position where they're not going to

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be able to pull narrowly as powerfully

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so it kind of weakens their position now

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the problem is some golfers hate that

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feeling of getting weak especially if

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their main feeling of power is in the

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shoulders or the triceps or something

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like that because it's going to make it

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feel weaker and golfers especially under

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pressure hate the feeling of not being

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able to go hard at it so I I find that

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the easiest way to work on that is

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through kind of proper offseason

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planning where you're working on good

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oblique and spine rotation and then

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getting into even some med balls or

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there's a product I I use training wise

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called the tornado wall or the twister

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wall I use the lighter one but it's

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basically a medicine ball on a rope and

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that can really help with coordinating

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more of a feeling of pulling on

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something from the core because if you

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pull on it with your arms you hit

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yourself with a medicine ball and it's

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it's not too Pleasant so I would kind of

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I I would start with the looking at the

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clubface control in transition and I

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would look on video a lot at how well

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the spine is rotating and I would also

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remind myself that Jason day got the

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number one in the world with that

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pattern so it doesn't mean that you

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can't have success with that pattern I

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would but if you're going to improve it

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you're gonna have to rebalance how your

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body creates power it's not it's usually

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not a path thing it's usually more of a

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this feels really strong okay so I had

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another question that I had another

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question about kind of someone who's got

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more of a barrel-chested right so if

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you're if you're larger and you don't

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have quite as much range of motion for

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making these shallow movements what do

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you do and and I'll relate it to the

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backswing because I see another question

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related to that you know it's there

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there are definitely some advantages

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there's a reason why a lot of the young

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guns are kind of wiry and fit because

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ideally you want to act with the club a

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little bit more like a pitcher with some

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of this kind of delayed timing and

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larger range of motion but there there

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have been some really good golfers who

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are more barrel chested the the thing

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that you need to make sure is that

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you're in the backswing you're

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controlling the arms relationship to the

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chest so what I see with more barrel

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chested golfers is they kind of really

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stabilize dig into the ground and they

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create more of the turn with the arms

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getting behind well if I get my arm

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behind in a position kind of like that

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when when my elbow gets behind my

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shoulder I'm going to lose a lot of the

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external range of motion so it's gonna

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force me to then pull down which is

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going to create a really steep alignment

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on the way back so I'll do I'll do

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drills kind of where I'm applying

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resistance and getting more of the

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backswing of rotation where the club

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feels like it's staying a little bit

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more in front of your chest and that'll

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give you the kind of the best

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opportunity or the that will give you

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some slack too then

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and allow a little bit of shallowing on

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the way down now you're probably never

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going to get the arms well in front on

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the way down just because you got more

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mass than you know skinny guys like me

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but what will what will happen is if you

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keep it in front you'll have that extra

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range of motion to get the club to

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shallow mostly from the lead arm so

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mostly from letting that left arm relax

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I did a video on the site on you know

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some of the I want to say larger golfers

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and you'll tend to see a pattern where

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the the right hand will come off the

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club at different points in the swing

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because most of the larger golfers who

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got to a really high level seem to

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control it more with the left hand and

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less with the right hand or the trail

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hand or a right-handed golfer because

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that restriction you know having that

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extra mass having that restriction in

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the shoulder would cause a really steep

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movement of the arms or of the club

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unless you did it mostly with that lead

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arm so doing is especially some of the

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lead arm release drills and kind of

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getting comfortable with controlling it

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more with the left arm I found with some

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of my husky or golfers that that really

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tends to help tends to help clean things

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up but if it if it's more of the back

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swing issue I would look at the spine

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movements more so than the arm movements

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and and kind of start from there I had a

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question about my thoughts on the orange

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whip as it relates to training

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transition which i think is a good

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question I do I like the orange whip as

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far as kind of the I call it a path

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trainer because what usually happens is

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things like the orange whip or things

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like the speed sticks things were you're

00:22:02.040 --> 00:22:04.610
focusing on getting a lot of speed

00:22:04.610 --> 00:22:07.590
usually creates a better path now the

00:22:07.590 --> 00:22:10.140
problem is with those objects you don't

00:22:10.140 --> 00:22:13.320
have to worry about the clubface

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the other thing you don't have to worry

00:22:14.669 --> 00:22:17.190
about is low point control so what I've

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seen is the orange whip can create face

00:22:24.059 --> 00:22:26.130
control issues where the club is coming

00:22:26.130 --> 00:22:28.950
in kind of he'll open or clubface open

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and you you tend to I've seen it cause

00:22:32.309 --> 00:22:34.049
shanks you can get into just kind of

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like flaring it off to the right or the

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one that I think is worse is it causes

00:22:38.820 --> 00:22:41.549
low point control because it gets you

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using your body inside bending and if

00:22:44.009 --> 00:22:45.929
you still have a bit of a cast pattern

00:22:45.929 --> 00:22:47.610
for squaring the clubface and you get

00:22:47.610 --> 00:22:50.159
into a better body position which the

00:22:50.159 --> 00:22:53.100
orange whip tends to train then if you

00:22:53.100 --> 00:22:54.690
don't make any adjustment to your arms

00:22:54.690 --> 00:22:56.580
the bottom of the swing is going to be

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more back behind the golf ball here so I

00:23:00.120 --> 00:23:02.129
like the orange whip for creating speed

00:23:02.129 --> 00:23:05.960
but in the short term I've seen it

00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:08.070
create some low point issues so I

00:23:08.070 --> 00:23:10.110
wouldn't try it you know I wouldn't

00:23:10.110 --> 00:23:12.990
break it out and test it the week before

00:23:12.990 --> 00:23:15.149
an important event unless you've already

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practiced with a bunch see a couple okay

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so would you say that another way from

00:23:24.750 --> 00:23:26.639
from Jason would you say that another

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way of looking at shallowing the club

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head is either behind the hands or even

00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:35.360
with the hands throughout the downswing

00:23:35.360 --> 00:23:37.649
you can correct me if I'm wrong about

00:23:37.649 --> 00:23:39.990
your when you say even with the hands

00:23:39.990 --> 00:23:46.580
but but yes so shallowing for me is the

00:23:46.580 --> 00:23:49.200
relationship of the club shaft compared

00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:52.379
to the body horizontally or it's the

00:23:52.379 --> 00:23:55.080
amount of width so that's where some

00:23:55.080 --> 00:23:57.690
guys shallow it more by getting the club

00:23:57.690 --> 00:23:59.820
far away from you and then it's like a

00:23:59.820 --> 00:24:03.539
circle that's with a wider radius like

00:24:03.539 --> 00:24:05.210
it has less change down at the bottom

00:24:05.210 --> 00:24:09.000
others would be getting it more behind

00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:11.549
the hands as you're describing which

00:24:11.549 --> 00:24:15.059
then it's basically like like flattening

00:24:15.059 --> 00:24:17.549
the lie angle so now instead of slamming

00:24:17.549 --> 00:24:19.049
into the ground it kind of skims the

00:24:19.049 --> 00:24:21.510
ground that way both of those tend to

00:24:21.510 --> 00:24:24.990
shallow the club the when you get the

00:24:24.990 --> 00:24:26.790
club more behind it'll

00:24:26.790 --> 00:24:28.530
allows you to use body rotation to then

00:24:28.530 --> 00:24:30.360
bring it back out in front and that body

00:24:30.360 --> 00:24:33.890
rotation typically creates more speed so

00:24:33.890 --> 00:24:37.080
for at the very least even if it doesn't

00:24:37.080 --> 00:24:39.420
create more speed it allows for the arm

00:24:39.420 --> 00:24:41.820
extension that happened later which

00:24:41.820 --> 00:24:43.680
tends to slow down the clubface closure

00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:46.380
which tends to produce a little bit more

00:24:46.380 --> 00:24:48.240
repeatability when you get good at that

00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:52.980
pattern so a good you know there are a

00:24:52.980 --> 00:24:55.200
couple of good checkpoints you know when

00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:57.480
the when the shaft is getting in line

00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:59.610
with the right forearm or at shaft

00:24:59.610 --> 00:25:01.320
parallel if the hand if the club is

00:25:01.320 --> 00:25:03.990
still behind the hands as providing that

00:25:03.990 --> 00:25:05.970
the chest is facing roughly around the

00:25:05.970 --> 00:25:08.130
golf ball then that would indicate that

00:25:08.130 --> 00:25:11.820
you have more of a shallow arm movement

00:25:11.820 --> 00:25:13.950
so those are two good kind of video

00:25:13.950 --> 00:25:17.820
checkpoints you can use I have a

00:25:17.820 --> 00:25:21.300
question from Arasu classic swings

00:25:21.300 --> 00:25:24.240
appear to have more leg drive and access

00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:26.610
tilt at impact is it equipment related

00:25:26.610 --> 00:25:30.090
do you have preference for young golfers

00:25:30.090 --> 00:25:31.800
to model after classic versus modern

00:25:31.800 --> 00:25:35.790
swings there's you know I I definitely

00:25:35.790 --> 00:25:39.420
think that the equipment has a large

00:25:39.420 --> 00:25:41.550
role in why we see swings the way that

00:25:41.550 --> 00:25:45.450
they are now and there's enough cases of

00:25:45.450 --> 00:25:47.370
golfers who've grabbed old equipment

00:25:47.370 --> 00:25:49.140
right I know that they did this at the

00:25:49.140 --> 00:25:52.800
the BMW when it was in Denver and I

00:25:52.800 --> 00:25:55.950
remember Rory doing it at another event

00:25:55.950 --> 00:25:59.100
but grabbing old equipment so the old

00:25:59.100 --> 00:26:01.260
golf ball and the old shafts and trying

00:26:01.260 --> 00:26:03.390
to make swings and not being able to hit

00:26:03.390 --> 00:26:08.550
it very well at all the when when you

00:26:08.550 --> 00:26:10.680
had kind of the high spinning golf ball

00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:13.350
you really had to launch it low and so

00:26:13.350 --> 00:26:17.220
getting that leg drive was one way to

00:26:17.220 --> 00:26:21.600
help get more shaft lean and I don't

00:26:21.600 --> 00:26:24.200
even know if it's more more shaft lean

00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:28.050
per se because I haven't seen the I

00:26:28.050 --> 00:26:31.200
don't know if they've done any any

00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:34.320
research or any any even video analysis

00:26:34.320 --> 00:26:37.410
of looking at how much more the the

00:26:37.410 --> 00:26:40.110
handle would be ahead but I think

00:26:40.110 --> 00:26:42.540
you you see the images and if you played

00:26:42.540 --> 00:26:44.580
whatas you saw the balls lunch really

00:26:44.580 --> 00:26:46.650
low and then spin up and if you launched

00:26:46.650 --> 00:26:48.240
it high it's still spun up

00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:51.450
it wasn't until really the pro-v that

00:26:51.450 --> 00:26:53.520
you could launch it high and get the the

00:26:53.520 --> 00:26:57.890
spin rate really low so I think that

00:26:57.890 --> 00:27:02.160
there are some I think that there are

00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:05.490
some possible benefits for the like

00:27:05.490 --> 00:27:06.929
looking at some of the older swings for

00:27:06.929 --> 00:27:10.350
more of the fluid aspect you know kind

00:27:10.350 --> 00:27:13.320
of more like a softer phil mickelson

00:27:13.320 --> 00:27:19.350
style of creating speed but the there's

00:27:19.350 --> 00:27:21.900
a reason why most of the top guys right

00:27:21.900 --> 00:27:22.410
now

00:27:22.410 --> 00:27:24.330
have more of the modern swing look I

00:27:24.330 --> 00:27:29.280
think performance wise it's it it's

00:27:29.280 --> 00:27:34.290
better i I think that let's see I think

00:27:34.290 --> 00:27:36.030
you were asking for yeah for young

00:27:36.030 --> 00:27:38.850
golfers the the thing that really is

00:27:38.850 --> 00:27:41.580
tough for young golfers is that they

00:27:41.580 --> 00:27:44.840
have so many tournaments and so much

00:27:44.840 --> 00:27:47.940
demand as far as playing well at all

00:27:47.940 --> 00:27:51.419
times throughout the year that they they

00:27:51.419 --> 00:27:53.910
almost get locked into their swing too

00:27:53.910 --> 00:27:55.200
soon

00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:59.580
because most of them like it's really

00:27:59.580 --> 00:28:04.049
hard to have solid sequencing until your

00:28:04.049 --> 00:28:08.850
abs really develop and most kids develop

00:28:08.850 --> 00:28:10.559
the legs grow first so they get really

00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.390
powerful with their legs then the arms

00:28:12.390 --> 00:28:14.280
tend to grow second and then the spine

00:28:14.280 --> 00:28:17.040
tends to grow third and so during that

00:28:17.040 --> 00:28:19.410
phase where the spine is where the legs

00:28:19.410 --> 00:28:21.120
are more powerful and the spine is still

00:28:21.120 --> 00:28:23.700
weak they tend to get into typically

00:28:23.700 --> 00:28:26.070
some of that kind of overuse of the

00:28:26.070 --> 00:28:29.660
lower body and then when the upper body

00:28:29.660 --> 00:28:33.210
catches up and comes back in it can be

00:28:33.210 --> 00:28:36.900
challenging for some to kind of go

00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:38.580
through the growing pains of learning to

00:28:38.580 --> 00:28:40.470
rebalance and get the core a little bit

00:28:40.470 --> 00:28:44.540
more involved so I think that's a bigger

00:28:44.540 --> 00:28:48.000
bigger issue as it relates to kids

00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.110
because they're not necessarily using

00:28:52.110 --> 00:28:53.220
the older equipment right they're not

00:28:53.220 --> 00:28:53.860
really

00:28:53.860 --> 00:28:57.460
going to be they're not gonna have the

00:28:57.460 --> 00:28:59.970
same incentives to have that low launch

00:28:59.970 --> 00:29:01.809
because they won't have the high spin

00:29:01.809 --> 00:29:06.220
with the current golf ball okay what's

00:29:06.220 --> 00:29:07.990
the importance of pelvic tilt spine

00:29:07.990 --> 00:29:10.929
alignment from Rob what's the important

00:29:10.929 --> 00:29:12.490
of pelvic tilt spine alignment and

00:29:12.490 --> 00:29:14.410
address is there a range you like to see

00:29:14.410 --> 00:29:16.929
can hit pinching in the downswing be

00:29:16.929 --> 00:29:19.840
more advantageous than doing it more at

00:29:19.840 --> 00:29:24.730
address good good question so this is

00:29:24.730 --> 00:29:27.580
where I'm probably gonna do some stuff

00:29:27.580 --> 00:29:30.160
related to this but a lot of those

00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:33.040
numbers that you'll see on 3d most of

00:29:33.040 --> 00:29:34.720
you know that I've got a pretty strong

00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:37.630
3d background I've been using a MM

00:29:37.630 --> 00:29:44.799
system since 2004 i I think that 3d is

00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.040
great for getting the big global

00:29:48.040 --> 00:29:50.890
pictures of what your pattern is so are

00:29:50.890 --> 00:29:52.720
you more of a Lunger than a caster or

00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:53.980
you more your caster than a Lunger

00:29:53.980 --> 00:29:55.179
because on video it looks like you do

00:29:55.179 --> 00:29:57.429
both 3d is great for answering those

00:29:57.429 --> 00:30:00.190
questions for getting into some of the

00:30:00.190 --> 00:30:02.980
specific details like what you're asking

00:30:02.980 --> 00:30:04.419
about with pelvic alignment spine

00:30:04.419 --> 00:30:07.890
alignment it's 3d is not detailed enough

00:30:07.890 --> 00:30:10.240
because if you think about it like the

00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:15.419
pelvis sensor is really addressing the

00:30:15.419 --> 00:30:21.340
hip the SI joints the lower back so

00:30:21.340 --> 00:30:24.130
there's probably like 10 15 joints that

00:30:24.130 --> 00:30:26.290
are all related to the pelvic sensor

00:30:26.290 --> 00:30:29.470
right so you can't just say that hey

00:30:29.470 --> 00:30:31.809
this golfer is five degrees open with an

00:30:31.809 --> 00:30:33.730
upper body zero degrees with this pelvis

00:30:33.730 --> 00:30:35.919
that's the right alignment no because

00:30:35.919 --> 00:30:37.390
there's lots of different combinations

00:30:37.390 --> 00:30:38.650
that could create that specific

00:30:38.650 --> 00:30:42.610
alignment so I like to go off of I

00:30:42.610 --> 00:30:46.390
actually will if if I have a golfer who

00:30:46.390 --> 00:30:50.710
is highly focused on their address and

00:30:50.710 --> 00:30:53.200
trying to really narrow in where they

00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:55.540
feel the most balanced or where they

00:30:55.540 --> 00:30:57.910
should be aligned and I'm just I'm

00:30:57.910 --> 00:30:59.860
seeing some weird stuff going on with

00:30:59.860 --> 00:31:03.160
the spine tilt or the legs I'll usually

00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:05.500
do some of my tests to look in and see

00:31:05.500 --> 00:31:07.300
what's happening at the pelvis what's

00:31:07.300 --> 00:31:07.660
happening

00:31:07.660 --> 00:31:11.830
the SI joint because it's very common

00:31:11.830 --> 00:31:15.010
for golfers to have slightly off or

00:31:15.010 --> 00:31:17.260
having some torsion in the pelvis and

00:31:17.260 --> 00:31:18.580
then what you'll see is they'll use

00:31:18.580 --> 00:31:20.680
their legs and their feet to get that

00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:24.730
pelvis back in normal mode position so

00:31:24.730 --> 00:31:27.310
I'm not a huge fan of finding like an

00:31:27.310 --> 00:31:33.310
absolute best spinal alignment as like a

00:31:33.310 --> 00:31:36.400
global you know everybody needs to be at

00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:39.010
20 degrees but you can you can figure

00:31:39.010 --> 00:31:42.370
out like your long-term goal is to keep

00:31:42.370 --> 00:31:44.680
your spine in relatively neutral

00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:50.440
position so that you can create create

00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:54.490
speed safely and create speed throughout

00:31:54.490 --> 00:31:56.740
the whole spine or the whole unit of

00:31:56.740 --> 00:32:01.440
legs pelvis hips ribcage shoulders arms

00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:05.710
if you get if you get too much torsion

00:32:05.710 --> 00:32:08.230
in one area you'll create kind of a weak

00:32:08.230 --> 00:32:10.780
point where you typically will either

00:32:10.780 --> 00:32:13.300
overuse that area or you'll completely

00:32:13.300 --> 00:32:15.310
avoid that area so that those are the

00:32:15.310 --> 00:32:18.430
problems that I'd see more for spine

00:32:18.430 --> 00:32:20.380
alignment so I could give you a rough

00:32:20.380 --> 00:32:23.200
range on 3d but I think that you know if

00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:24.460
you're working with good players you

00:32:24.460 --> 00:32:26.910
need to get past that the rough range

00:32:26.910 --> 00:32:30.850
isn't as good as what I think the the

00:32:30.850 --> 00:32:33.820
best guys are doing but can hip hinging

00:32:33.820 --> 00:32:35.170
in the downswing be more advantageous

00:32:35.170 --> 00:32:38.710
than doing it at setup um yeah you mean

00:32:38.710 --> 00:32:41.080
whether it's a pre stretch or a stretch

00:32:41.080 --> 00:32:47.290
shorten or kind of a you know a getting

00:32:47.290 --> 00:32:50.410
the I we don't know for sure if it's

00:32:50.410 --> 00:32:53.710
stretch shorten or if it's just by pre

00:32:53.710 --> 00:32:55.960
loading the muscle it can then apply

00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:59.500
more force it's probably more the latter

00:32:59.500 --> 00:33:01.000
than a true stress shorten but if your

00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:03.400
hint if you're stretching something

00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:05.200
during the downswing or during

00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:08.620
transition then the muscle will be able

00:33:08.620 --> 00:33:10.900
to activate stronger than if you

00:33:10.900 --> 00:33:13.450
stretched it at the start and just

00:33:13.450 --> 00:33:15.430
started from there the example would be

00:33:15.430 --> 00:33:18.580
like if you do a running jump versus a

00:33:18.580 --> 00:33:21.549
standing jump so in a standing jump

00:33:21.549 --> 00:33:24.759
gonna be basically you know all muscle

00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:26.529
activity that's going to create some

00:33:26.529 --> 00:33:29.950
elevation with the running drum when you

00:33:29.950 --> 00:33:33.369
run and you plant your foot your your

00:33:33.369 --> 00:33:37.389
quad is going to decelerate your moments

00:33:37.389 --> 00:33:39.730
I'm going forward and it's by activating

00:33:39.730 --> 00:33:42.489
that quad in decelerating that then when

00:33:42.489 --> 00:33:46.059
it gets into lift me up it's going at a

00:33:46.059 --> 00:33:47.679
higher level because it got to activate

00:33:47.679 --> 00:33:50.019
a whole lot earlier without causing you

00:33:50.019 --> 00:33:53.859
to lose that position so there's

00:33:53.859 --> 00:33:57.309
probably like you'll see a lot with with

00:33:57.309 --> 00:34:00.100
kids and young people who are really

00:34:00.100 --> 00:34:02.230
create or really creating a lot of speed

00:34:02.230 --> 00:34:03.519
from the lower body that they'll hip

00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:04.769
hinge in the downswing

00:34:04.769 --> 00:34:08.889
my goal would be the the danger with

00:34:08.889 --> 00:34:11.950
that is that you may have some sequence

00:34:11.950 --> 00:34:14.559
issues and path issues that could relate

00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.990
to the bottom of swing so you just want

00:34:16.990 --> 00:34:19.049
to monitor that and make sure that

00:34:19.049 --> 00:34:21.849
they're not doing it so much that it

00:34:21.849 --> 00:34:25.659
messes up their their upper body and

00:34:25.659 --> 00:34:27.040
their arm motions down through the

00:34:27.040 --> 00:34:31.569
release alright another question if I

00:34:31.569 --> 00:34:34.059
pull my hands towards the ball some say

00:34:34.059 --> 00:34:36.399
that's bad if I fold my hands to be

00:34:36.399 --> 00:34:38.770
desired impact location this would seem

00:34:38.770 --> 00:34:40.960
to be consistent with the white concept

00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:44.290
yet so the white concept for me is my

00:34:44.290 --> 00:34:46.359
term of basically getting your arms back

00:34:46.359 --> 00:34:49.750
in front of you and doing it mostly from

00:34:49.750 --> 00:34:52.780
the shoulders right so many golfers have

00:34:52.780 --> 00:34:54.190
talked about getting the club in front

00:34:54.190 --> 00:34:56.859
of you but obviously if you get the club

00:34:56.859 --> 00:34:58.559
in front of you you can't have your body

00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:00.910
rotated or side bend at impact

00:35:00.910 --> 00:35:02.980
so you it's more about getting the arms

00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:04.720
and the hands out in front of your body

00:35:04.720 --> 00:35:08.500
and it if you find that you I've had

00:35:08.500 --> 00:35:11.049
I've had many golfers where when they

00:35:11.049 --> 00:35:12.490
feel like they swing more with their

00:35:12.490 --> 00:35:15.640
arms they they get the better alignments

00:35:15.640 --> 00:35:17.710
like they get the arms out in front of

00:35:17.710 --> 00:35:20.410
the golf ball especially if they tend to

00:35:20.410 --> 00:35:22.059
have more of a early extension or thrust

00:35:22.059 --> 00:35:28.210
better so I'm enjoying all the questions

00:35:28.210 --> 00:35:31.270
but I've realized that you know my goal

00:35:31.270 --> 00:35:33.369
was about 20-30 minutes and we're

00:35:33.369 --> 00:35:34.870
getting towards the

00:35:34.870 --> 00:35:37.360
the end of this I'm planning to do more

00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:39.370
of these so I really appreciate all your

00:35:39.370 --> 00:35:42.010
comments if you if I discuss something

00:35:42.010 --> 00:35:45.130
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00:36:11.590 --> 00:36:15.670
fun yeah someone asked about can I hold

00:36:15.670 --> 00:36:18.010
my book up I've got a few of the early

00:36:18.010 --> 00:36:22.590
copies here but I just wrote a kind of

00:36:22.590 --> 00:36:27.270
pretty massive book it's about 350 pages

00:36:27.270 --> 00:36:31.990
going through lots of the different kind

00:36:31.990 --> 00:36:34.000
of ways that all the pieces fit together

00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.060
so kind of taking science taking some

00:36:37.060 --> 00:36:40.690
practical coaching and really tying it

00:36:40.690 --> 00:36:42.850
all together into hopefully a way that

00:36:42.850 --> 00:36:46.330
you can figure out what you need to do

00:36:46.330 --> 00:36:48.810
with your swing so I always I always

00:36:48.810 --> 00:36:50.890
harp on my students that you got to

00:36:50.890 --> 00:36:52.150
figure out what you're trying to do so

00:36:52.150 --> 00:36:54.550
is it are you working on your face

00:36:54.550 --> 00:36:56.470
control are you working on solid contact

00:36:56.470 --> 00:36:59.280
and low point control are you working on

00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:05.220
creating speed better I I think that

00:37:05.220 --> 00:37:07.810
when you figure out what main skill

00:37:07.810 --> 00:37:09.820
you're working on it opens up the road

00:37:09.820 --> 00:37:11.980
and it kind of makes it easier to then

00:37:11.980 --> 00:37:14.980
know if a tip that you heard or a swing

00:37:14.980 --> 00:37:16.540
thought makes sense or if it's just

00:37:16.540 --> 00:37:18.190
gonna be one of those kind of you know

00:37:18.190 --> 00:37:20.380
things that's only gonna work for a day

00:37:20.380 --> 00:37:22.150
I like long-term growth and long-term

00:37:22.150 --> 00:37:25.000
improvement and the goal of this book

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:27.160
was to really help you understand the

00:37:27.160 --> 00:37:29.830
pieces so that you can have a real

00:37:29.830 --> 00:37:35.410
long-term plan I see one last question

00:37:35.410 --> 00:37:37.300
if you have any other questions please

00:37:37.300 --> 00:37:39.430
send them to send them to support at

00:37:39.430 --> 00:37:41.590
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00:37:42.190 --> 00:37:45.160
hopefully in a timely manner last

00:37:45.160 --> 00:37:46.960
question do you promote more of a rotary

00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:48.640
movement through the ball or

00:37:48.640 --> 00:37:52.390
a stall like Phil seems like I hit more

00:37:52.390 --> 00:37:54.099
solid shots with a stall which probably

00:37:54.099 --> 00:37:56.010
means I'm over the top when rotating

00:37:56.010 --> 00:37:59.200
through the motorcycle what it probably

00:37:59.200 --> 00:38:02.609
means is that you don't have an eye

00:38:02.609 --> 00:38:05.680
advocate more of the rotary style Phil

00:38:05.680 --> 00:38:07.890
obviously has some face control issues

00:38:07.890 --> 00:38:12.700
but the the more upper body on top arm

00:38:12.700 --> 00:38:17.349
Arne dominant swing can work really well

00:38:17.349 --> 00:38:18.940
with for the short irons which is more

00:38:18.940 --> 00:38:20.740
of kind of a circular shaped less of the

00:38:20.740 --> 00:38:27.160
flat bottom as far as it what's likely

00:38:27.160 --> 00:38:29.349
happening if you hit better with a stall

00:38:29.349 --> 00:38:31.809
is that yes you would probably need a

00:38:31.809 --> 00:38:33.910
little bit more motorcycle and you'd

00:38:33.910 --> 00:38:35.710
probably need more of the Jackson 5 or a

00:38:35.710 --> 00:38:37.180
little bit more of the access tool

00:38:37.180 --> 00:38:39.309
because what's probably happening is

00:38:39.309 --> 00:38:41.289
you're getting early movement from the

00:38:41.289 --> 00:38:43.660
shoulders and then by stalling you

00:38:43.660 --> 00:38:46.869
haven't kind of gotten as much outside

00:38:46.869 --> 00:38:49.990
in or steep and then when you straighten

00:38:49.990 --> 00:38:52.539
your arms because of the stall you're

00:38:52.539 --> 00:38:54.309
able to coordinate the face and control

00:38:54.309 --> 00:38:56.799
hopefully my only concern would be if

00:38:56.799 --> 00:38:59.769
you had face control issues with the

00:38:59.769 --> 00:39:03.099
driver or potentially like 3-wood if

00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:04.450
those are your main struggles then I

00:39:04.450 --> 00:39:07.170
would probably make a plan to work on

00:39:07.170 --> 00:39:10.480
the kind of the timing of that through

00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:11.880
impact

00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:14.829
so all right thank you all for for

00:39:14.829 --> 00:39:17.019
joining me and if you have any other

00:39:17.019 --> 00:39:20.549
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