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In this analysis video, we're going to look at the swing pattern for loss of posture.

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Now, the definition of the swing pattern for loss of posture is essentially a elevation

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of the thorax where a lack of left tilt during the back swing. So the thorax is going to be

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somewhere right around in here on these two golfers. And what you'll see is during the back swing,

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you'll see the thorax actually raise up. So if we look at this other gentleman who is a little

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bit more of a low handicap golfer, you'll still see a raise of the thorax. Now, the other

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way that you can look at this pattern, still from the down the line camera angle, is if you

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were to look at the amount of left tilt of their thorax or the amount of left bend, you will

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see that loss of posture golfers tend to have flatter shoulders and as a result, we'll usually

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have steeper arms to adjust. But the pattern is a raise of the thorax and a loss of this left

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tilt during the back swing. Or I guess I should say a failure to develop this left tilt

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during the back swing. Now, one of the common patterns with this pattern or the common

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ball flights that you'll typically see is players who have this loss of posture during

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their back swing are typically going to have more of a flexion-based swing than a rotation

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base swing. As a result, they're not going to be very open with their body at impact.

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And so that will typically move the bottom of this swing further behind the golf ball. As a result,

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they will struggle with fat shots and top shots. They will have a path that's going typically

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to the left, but we'll get into that more in the next section. Now, there will always be examples

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of players on tours who demonstrate some of these swing patterns. So here's Kenny Perry, who's probably

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the most predominant golfer with the loss of posture or swing pattern. Typically, the loss of posture

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swing pattern is going to cause a transition that is more flexion-based. But what you'll see with Kenny

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Perry is he does a great job during transition of getting back into position and then allowing

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rotation to help him provide the proper angle of attack and path into the golf club.

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Compare that to this low handicap amateur golfer. You'll see that there's a lack of that

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drop during transition, which is one of the common compensation patterns or associated

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movements with the loss of posture or swing pattern. Typically, when you lose your posture,

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you will have to then result in a little bit more of a cast and crunch in order to get the golf

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club back down to the golf ball.

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Now, let's take a look from a power path and face perspective. So from a power perspective, this

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loss of posture is going to load your six back abs and it's going to load your shoulder. So

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typically what happens is you're going to do more of a crunch movement from the upper body and

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you're going to do more of a tricep extension or arm extension. The areas where it tends to

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weaken your body is it tends to weaken the ability to create speed from the legs and from the hips.

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It also tends to weaken the amount of rotational capabilities. When you have this left shoulder down a

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little bit more, it loads your obliques where standing up like so is typically loading more

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your rectus or your six pack muscles. Your obliques do a great job of rotating you while your six pack

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muscles do a great job of flexing you. You'll notice that Kenny Perry during this transition

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is going to get back down into his hips and create a little bit more of a steep path for his shoulders.

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Compared to where it was truly at the top of his swing.

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That movement during transition has reloaded the hips and reloaded the obliques and those allow

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for some of this rotation to occur during his downswing where the amateur not sitting back down

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into the hips but rather bending more into the spine is not going to have the legs to

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necessarily push off and create speed and so always left with his crunch and chop from his arms.

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From a path perspective simply standing up will create more of a shallow path because it gets the club

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swinging more on a horizontal plane. Unfortunately, most amateurs that stand up will then use the

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arms more vertically and do that forward crunch that I discussed. So as a result those two movements tend to

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create more of a steepening path. So by itself the stand up move or the loss of posture during the

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backswing is going to create a shallow angle of attack or a shallow path but it's usually a company

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by an overly steep compensation which results in the steep and left path that most amateurs who

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struggle with this pattern battle.

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Lastly the loss of posture swing pattern by itself has a minimal effect on face rotation.

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One of the most common compensating or associative movements with the loss of posture swing

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fault is going to be the cast pattern because when I've raised up my upper body I've loaded that

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shoulder and I've loaded that tricep and I've created a whole lot of vertical distance between

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myself and the golf ball which provides for a powerful platform for my arms. So you'll see

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frequently the arms leading transition or leading the early stages of the release.

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Just like so. So you'll see a little bit of a cast pattern and a lack of drop during transition.

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That drop helps load the hips and create the lower body power. So if you don't drop all you

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have left with is using those arms to create power. These two movements tend to create

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an appearance at impact where the hands are a little bit more even with the golf ball or

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off of the right side of the body. It's not always the case as you'll see on this

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skilled golfer on the left. He's able to still get his hands a little bit ahead of the golf ball

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but that would be part of this common pattern the loss of posture swing pattern.