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This concept video is discussing the member question about

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hand path at the bottom of the swing.

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Um, so a member asked the question about, uh,

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Chris Ryan video about hand path specifically, um,

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that the hands get furthest out, um, kind of at a,

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when the club is parallel in the downswing

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and then they work in on the way through.

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Um, and basically he had a lot of questions, comments about

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how does that not shank it?

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How does that, that not create poles?

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Um, so I just thought, uh, to his request, I would talk

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through what creates some of those looks.

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Um, so this ties into the flat spot idea

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that in order to create a more gradual bottom of the swing,

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I essentially want the handle moving in the opposite

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direction of the club head.

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So during the release

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or during impact, uh, not the whole release,

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but during impact

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and going into follow through, the handle is going

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to be moving slightly up

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and in as the club head is passing,

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what you'll see from the down the line compared

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to if I was moving kind of down

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and out with it, the height of the club

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and the path of the club would vary greatly.

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They would, it would be very diggy,

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it would move out that way.

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Where if I can move the handle this way,

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as the club head is releasing out, it, it softens the amount

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that it's moving into out

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and it softens the amount that it's moving high to low.

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Um, so it creates this flat bottom of the swing.

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Um, so there are some things that, uh,

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Chris was talking about in his video

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that I'll try to clarify.

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There are two, I think, big ideas here.

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One, what is the club doing compared to the ball,

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which we've already discussed?

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And then what is the club doing compared to the body?

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How do we marry those two compared to the body in order

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to create more stability in the, the forearms

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and the club head?

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Um, and in order to create maximum width control,

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I want the club, uh, moving from closer to my body

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to away from my body.

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So if I didn't move, um,

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and I just got the club kind

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of in a shaft parallel like this

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and I just used my arms, um, trying not to move my body,

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the club would move the grip

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and the club head would move out towards the golf

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ball and down.

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Now, Chris said in the video that the furthest out

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that the club is gonna be here

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and then it's working in towards your body.

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There's a small clarification, I would say.

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Uh, typically yes, the club is going to be,

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its furthest out, not quite app parallel.

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It's a little bit past there.

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Um, but then the club is going

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to be moving slightly away from the golf ball and in,

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but it's not working towards your body,

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it's working further away from your body.

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So how do you marry that in order

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to have the club working away from your body

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but globally moving up

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and in your body has

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to have rotation side bending going into extension

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or the movement we call negative torsion.

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Um, so if I get into this pattern

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and then I, I extended my arms,

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the club would move out towards the golf ball,

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both the club head and the grip.

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But if at the same time that I do that with my arms,

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my body is turning, then the club you can see compared

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to the golf ball is actually following my body rotation

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and moving around to the left and up.

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Because at this point my shoulders are tilted,

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I'm going into extension and my body is rotated

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and my arms are simply following that path of the body, kind

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of going more this way.

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But in order to not have it go that way quite so extreme,

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my arms are going to be extending, um, down the line

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or extending away from my body.

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So that's one of the pieces

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that I don't think he necessarily highlighted in his video

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that could cause some confusion.

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For a lot of golfers, it's gonna feel like the club, um,

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the whole club is traveling down through impact.

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Um, but if you actually have the club, the grip end

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of the club traveling down through impact, the contact

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with the ground would be very diggy.

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So if you feel like the club is moving down through impact

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and you have some good, um, compression

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or your hands are ahead,

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but it's not too diggy,

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then rest assured you're probably doing

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some good things with your body.

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Moving the club away from the ground

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as the club head is moving down towards the golf wall.

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So the club

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is getting into this further out position here, but then

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because of the bracing movement of the body

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complimented by the arms getting further away,

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those offset each other

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and create a really, um, flat bottom of the swing

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or shallow bottom of the swing with the bottom

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of the swing far, um, enough

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or pretty much as far as you can in front of the golf ball,

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um, allowing you to make more consistent contact

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as well as control the clubface.

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So hopefully this ties together what's going on

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with the arms and hands down at the bottom, I have lots

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of drills on how

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to train the arms working into this more wider position

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as opposed to kind of scooping and pulling in.

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Um, and I have lots of drills to work on the sequencing

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and the body position, uh, both controlling the distance

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as well as the, um, rotational sequencing, mastering

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that combination will help give you really high level, um,

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consistency of ground contact as well as club face control.

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Two of the hallmarks of the stock tour swing

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that we're all trying to build.

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So club is at its kind of lowest

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and furthest out right around here as it moves,

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as the body moves up and away.

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If we did that a little bit more dynamically,

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it just looks normal.