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This drill is pelvis to club X-factor.

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So pelvis to club X-factor is looking at a key relationship between the club shaft and

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your pelvis.

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I'm going to use an alignment stick to help make it easier to see where my pelvis is facing.

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The original X-factor looks at the difference between your upper body and your lower body.

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Primarily from overhead view.

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So you create kind of a difference between your upper body and lower body, which would

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create this X-type shape and what they hypothesized was the bigger the X-factor or the further

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you'd hit it or it got revised to say that the more you created a stretch between the

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two on the downswing and the faster you caught the top piece up to the bottom piece.

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So the faster you close that X-factor stretch the further you'd hit it.

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Well, I'm going to give you a different X-factor, one relating the club shaft to the pelvis,

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to help you understand how shallow it works and what you might have to feel if you're trying

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to get out of an over the top swing pattern.

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For some of you, this is part of an overly inside out swing pattern.

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So basically what we're going to look at is the relationship between the club shaft and the

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pelvis.

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And in order for me to swing from the inside, if I have this alignment stick up against the pelvis,

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I'm going to create almost a 90 degree angle between the pelvis and the club shaft.

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It's not quite 90 degrees, it's a hard thing to measure, so I don't know exactly what the

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number is.

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But visually, at about this shaft parallel checkpoint, the hips will be, you know, 30 degrees

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open and the club will be slightly inside.

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It creates a relationship just like so.

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Many golfers who are more upper body dominant will tend to see is that at about half

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way down the club and the pelvis will be pointed in the same direction.

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And what happens is if that's the case, you'll never be able to really get your lower

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body to lead because the lower body leads, the more that the club gets overly outside.

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Where this relates to some of those golfers who hit more of a hook is you can get the

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two pointed in the same direction kind of like this where the arms are working steep and

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the pelvis is still relatively square.

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So whether your pattern is more of an outside in pattern or whether your pattern is more

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of an inside out pattern to hit kind of big draws big hooks, then either way, it could

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be a sign of lacking some of this arm shallow.

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So what I'm going to do on this next one is I'm going to try and increase the difference

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between those two and I'm going to slide this so that you can still see the angle but

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it no longer impedes my arm movement because where I had it before when they were dead

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parallel, would have actually gotten in the way.

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So now I'm going to do just a little pump and you can put the club between through your

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belt loops or sorry the shaft between your belt loops if you want to be able to do

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this with both hands.

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But what you'll see is that by getting these two at a greater angle it will be much easier

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for you to swing from the inside but it will also take a feeling of letting the club

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weight a little bit longer in order to get the hips open with the club back.

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So now that you've seen the relationship I'll do a couple focusing on it without the club

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shaft in the belt loops.

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So now I'm going to focus on getting it more and more behind just kind of like so so that

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I can visualize that same angle and hopefully you can see it from that downline camera

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view.

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So you can do this in either a pump style or you could do it in a 9 to 3.

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So as a 9 to 3 you're going to get in this position now everything is kind of square.

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I'm going to preset that lower body open and then swing through from there.

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So good release mechanics will be easier to do from this X factor position between the

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pelvis and the shaft.

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So now I'm going to do more of a pump style so I'm going to bring it up and get that club

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well behind compared to the pelvis.

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I'm going to try to really exaggerate it and use that pelvis getting open in order to bring

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the club in front not using my arms.

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So pump it again.

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So there pump it again back up and then pump and you'll see that it creates a look that most

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of you are trying to get and if you are used to getting the club totally parallel to your

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pelvis either because you get too far from the inside or too far from the outside.

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If the club shaft is parallel to your pelvis at waist parallel it's going to be really hard

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for you to do either a really good motorcycle movement or it's going to be really hard for

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you to lead the downswing with your lower body and those are two key components of

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really solid ball striking.