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This drill is the side Bend visual. So side Bend

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is a really important shallowing component.

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It's kind of a master move because it

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helps it helps with the slice

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early in the downswing and then it helps with the hook later

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in the downswing. So it's really a

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kind of a regulator and helps a lot

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with consistency and it's a there are

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a couple different ways that I approach it. So in this video, I'll break down the three

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most common kind of control centers for

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getting good side bend down through

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impact and into the follow through so we're gonna use a little visual here.

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If I get into the Merry-Go-Round drill where the

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club is across my shoulders and I turn where this is basically pointing down

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towards the golf ball. You'll see that my shoulders kind of

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match roughly this pool noodle here. So I

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basically have a line going from my shoulders down

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to the golf ball oftentimes in lessons. I will

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draw this so I will go up to the top of the swing and then it

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will draw a line from the golf ball or sorry

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from the shoulder the trail shoulder the right shoulder in my case down

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to the golf ball. And what you'll see is with a

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lot of the consistent ball Strikers their shoulders will stay under

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it all the way or or going along

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it all the way until follow through position where what

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I see a lot of amateurs do is either they spin on

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top of it early so they go over that

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plane early or they're under

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it and then during the release in kind of

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a stand-up move and a shoulder coming up move it tends

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to go out there. So

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What I'll do is I'll put this pool noodle kind of at

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that shoulder plain angle just to help create a

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visual now. I've got it pointing at the golf ball. So I'm not gonna be

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able to hit because the tripod would get in the way. So first I'm going to do this as

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just a body awareness drill and basically what I'm

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going to do is get in my golf posture and then I'm gonna turn and

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I'm gonna try to match the pool noodle

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here with my shoulder angle.

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Just kind of like that and then I'm gonna back up and move a little

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bit forward and I'm gonna try to match it with both my arms

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and my my shoulders

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now I mentioned there are three common places

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where golfers tend to struggle with getting this

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side bend down at the bottom of the Swing one. We

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can kind of break your spirit your

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spine up in thirds. So first you've got from your rib

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cage down. So this would be more kind of ab Zone then

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you've got from kind of your mid thoracic. So

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from about armpit down to just above

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halfway between belly button in the bottom of

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your ribs.

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So we've got that zone that's more about kind of the shoulder blade

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and it's crunch and then you've got upper so

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kind of above the shoulder blades and that's more about the neck.

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So to really optimize this

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shoulder or sorry the side Bend move you're going to

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do a little bit of a crunch a little bit of a shoulder retraction and

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then a little bit of the head on the pillow or neck tilt.

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Kind of like this.

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as we come through

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I see common places where you'll break down would be

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either be you can see if the head starts to try to look level that would

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be the head on the pillow idea. If the shoulder is

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come way out as opposed to shoulder being down or lead

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shoulder blocking. So we have a bunch of videos talking about

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that and then feeling a little bit of a side

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crunch here versus kind of going up towards my

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toes in this feeling a little bit more straight kind of

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like that.

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Oftentimes golfers who lack this

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side crunch move, which is a big shallower create a

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lot of slide or axis tilt in an

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attempt to kind of shallow in a different

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way. So this can be helpful for low point

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for shaft lean for not hooking the ball as well

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as not slicing the ball.

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It's a so as I said, it's kind of

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one of these Master moves. It's a really big skill differentiator. And

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it's one of the things that contributes to having some of

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the most consistent bottom of the Swing characteristics. So

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now that we've got an idea of this feel

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We're gonna move the tripod just slightly and we're

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going to do a few kind of just nine to

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threes.

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Where we're gonna feel like we match that angle

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as best we can I think I can do a little bit.

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Better than that and when I do that currently, I feel

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like I'm way down. In fact oftentimes the way I'll have golfer start

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it is get to this position and then just do a

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little kind of brushing drill just to feel wow

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that feels like my shoulders are

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much more vertical or it feels like my arm is really tucked. It

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feels like my head is looking at it

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sideways. I don't know what the feel will be. But if you're just

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doing a few of these kind of exaggerated side then

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brushing movements, I guarantee you you

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will get a feel so then we can do one where

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we kind of like preset some of that side bent movement.

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And then just up came up out of it. So caught that just

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a touch thin.

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So, let's see if we can keep that.

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Shoulder going down a little bit longer that was pretty good there and you'll

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see that really helps kind of shallow out

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the bottom of the swing a lot of golfers who tend

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to hook the ball and get kind of Diggy that shoulder comes over the

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top at the bottom. This can be a big contributing factor

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there.

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So once we've got this feel of doing this

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little brush movement, then we'll do it more dynamically,

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and we'll move to a nine to

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three kind of.

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Something like that and we're gonna go to that finished position. We're just

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gonna do our best to try to match it. We're gonna

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explore, you know, as hard

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as we can do this as big as we can

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do it, but using this pool noodle to kind of help with

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the visual of the angle of where that side Bend

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will be that'll help you develop some feels for the

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side Bend through the ball.

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So now that we've got some some feels of these smaller swings.

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We're going to try it with a little bit.

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Kind of bigger movement and one of

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the things that you'll want to pay attention to is if you're looking at video from

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the face on view a lot of golfers know that

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you don't want to get into this side Bend movement too quickly.

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If it shows up on video that you're getting

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into the side Bend movement right away oftentimes what

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it means is you're not getting into enough of this left side

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Bend during the backswing.

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Oftentimes you'll start coming up out of it and really

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get into that side Bend movement quickly. So before

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the arm reaches

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parallel, you're already actually in that side bent movement as opposed

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to try. I should

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say you're already side bent. If your left

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side bent kind of like this at the top then when you start going into

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that right side bent we're at about even or

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shoulders level halfway down and

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then it overtakes and goes into actual right side then

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later, but you're starting that side Bend move pretty much

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from the top and it's continuing all the way down. So quick

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little demonstration.

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We're gonna go up to the top.

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side Bend move

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as long down through as we can open to get a really clean bottom

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of the Swing if you're struggling with side Bend,

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you can look at either the ABS the shoulders shoulder

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blades or the neck

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as good sources for increasing

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that side Bend. I'd recommend looking from the down the

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line view if you're losing the side Bend up

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here. It's more of the neck if you're losing it kind of more in this

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Zone. That's more of the shoulders some of

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the neck and then if you're losing it more kind of in the

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middle of the back that's gonna be more of the the crunch

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move. So one of those three will be your gateway

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to figuring out your side Bend.