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video is monitoring right side bend for the full swing. So monitoring right side bend
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can be helpful for those of you who either don't have enough or have too much or
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getting it from the wrong place. So not all right side bend is created equal.
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I mean you view simple way to feel whether you're getting it from your hips or
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you're getting it more from your spine. So the simple way to feel it I'm going to
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put the club down here for a second is if you take your hands and you hold
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them kind of in the low-high symbol right now we're going to take our thumbs
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and place them on the bottom of our ribs so you can just kind of poke around until you
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feel the bottom of your ribs and then take your pinkies and place it on the top of
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your pelvis or kind of like your ASIS. So now if I was to right side bend or left side bend
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I can feel kind of a crunching action and a lengthening action so I can feel some
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change there versus if I was to tilt from the hips I can feel that this
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relationships, they's pretty much the same but I can create a pretty good amount of
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side bend just by going through the hips as opposed to keeping the hips level
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and going through the spine. So there are two common places where you can go into
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more of a spine side bend and not the hips and you want to kind of monitor it if you're
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working on your access tilt especially if you start to get some lower back pain.
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So the two common places would be in transition and in the follow-through.
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So what I'll do is from down the line you'll be able to see I'm going to have a
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little bit of left side bend as I go towards the top of the swing but then as I go
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into transition I'm going to basically keep that left side bend and not let that
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right side get too low until I get into my release. So here's that transition move
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where I'm having it more from the hips as opposed to having it all from the spine
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from the face on view that I'll look like this if I do it more from the hips it
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will look kind of like that if I do it more from the spine it will kind of look like
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that and it will look a little bit more upper body dominant. The other option or the other
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place to kind of key in on is when I go through the follow-through making sure that I'm getting
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in some of the side bend through the hips. If the hips stay pretty level and then I get
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all the side bend through the spine that can be problematic for a lot of golfers. Both in terms
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of usually accompanied by a little bit more of kind of that role release and creating some crunch
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factor in the right side lower back. So making sure that when I get into that good follow-through
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position that I've got some crunch in the spine but nowhere near my maximum. So I like to say that
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if your maximum is let's say 60 degrees or something like that, Tor pros that impact are going
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to be somewhere in the 20 to 30 range and then when they reach their maximum, it will be somewhere
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around 40. They're not really going to approach their end range of motion for this side
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bend movement of the spine. The way they do that is by getting some of the tilt from the pelvis
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and some of the tilt from the spine and that ends up creating more of a look like so where I'm kind
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of sitting in my pelvis as opposed to this which would be sitting more in my lower back. So if you're
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struggling with getting some of this access tilt from too much spine side bend, use your thumb
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and index finger kind of do some homework where you can put in 10, 20, 30 repetitions at a time,
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just kind of really feeling this and as you put in more and more you'll get more comfortable
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getting into that movement. Once you're comfortable in that movement you can do whether it's transition,
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you could do pump drills or if it's through the release you can do nine to three siled drills. You can figure out why your body
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would be trying to avoid that movement is it because of contact and path or is it because I can't control my low point.
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That's the investigation part of this whole procedure but know that we don't want to create maximum spine
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men. We want some of that men coming from the pelvis and some of it coming from the spine and you can check that in a few key places
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using the low-hot thumb and pinky.