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in this swing analysis video we're going

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to take a look at Adam Scott now Adam

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Scott has one of the best swings of our

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era as far as a lot of the geometry so

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I'm not just going to sit here and play

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through swing and tell you how perfect

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the club looks there or at the top of

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the swing or etc we're going to get into

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some of the details of some of the key

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movements that makes his swing look the

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way that it does function the way that

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does and potentially gives him a little

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bit of trouble when it gets to putting

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so hopefully you'll enjoy this analysis

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video as we take a look at some of the

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key movements of the transition and down

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swinging for Adam Scott so the two key

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movements that we will look at in

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transition are going to be the arm

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shallowing and the sequencing or how

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he's powering the swing with his total

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body so first let's look at this arm

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shallowing move it's going to be he's

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one of the examples that people use of

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lookey just brings his arms straight

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back down on kind of the same position

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or same plane that he would swing back

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on now what I'll say is okay that's fine

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I'm not saying that the club is making a

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huge major shallowing move I'm saying

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that the arms are because if we take

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this position here in the backswing you

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can see where his chest and where his

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pelvis are facing and you can see that

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the elbow actually let's go a little bit

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further back so we can see you can see

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the elbow there is pointing pretty close

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to straight down towards the ground it's

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got a little bit of internal rotation

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but it's pointing pretty much down

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towards the ground so what will happen

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is from the top of the swing as he

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starts down now his arm is pointing a

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little bit more out but the big thing is

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compared to his body if his arms and

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club are in a relatively same similar

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position to where they were in the

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backswing so right around here then

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if his body has completely changed by

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definition his arms have also changed in

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order to maintain that same space it's

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kind of like if I had you standing up on

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a you know wobbly board and your head

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was staying in the same place but your

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body was moving all

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the place technically your neck is

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moving a lot in order to keep your head

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still even though it looks like your

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head is things so so is if his arms

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don't look like they've changed a whole

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lot but his body looks like it's changed

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a ton he's made some major arm and

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shoulder movements in order to attain

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that look so what we'll see is the elbow

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is now pointing a little bit more down

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even though the body has rotated a

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significant amount in order to make that

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happen the arms will have had to have

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rotated to the right of his body or

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shall out a very good bit you can see it

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a little bit from the face on you as

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well where the elbows pointing kind of

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straight down there and then as we go up

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towards the top of swing in return back

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to that same position now the elbow is

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pointing kind of more out or well out in

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front of the golf ball as opposed to

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pointing straight down at about that

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same position or you know orientation

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compared to the camera so even though it

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doesn't look like he's having this

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shallow move all the all the indicators

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are there and everything is pointing to

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the fact that his arms have shadowed a

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good bit during transition otherwise he

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wouldn't be able to have the body

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rotation that he's going to have during

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the remainder of the downswing without

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getting too steep so now let's take a

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look at one of my favorite topics which

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is how golfers power their swings so

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we're going to take a look at how Adam

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uses his entire body to power the swing

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so I basically want you to look and kind

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of pay attention to these major joints

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so what's happening at the foot ankle

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what's happening at the knee what's

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happening at the hip and then what's

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happening in the mid spine or just below

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the shirt buttons kind of in here so

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what we'll see is as he goes up towards

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the top of the swing you'll see there's

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actually some movement in his foot I'll

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show it in a little better camera angle

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or a little better camera quality view

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but you'll see that there's an overall

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pattern of it looks like everything is

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moving together and yet if you were to

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go frame by frame it looks like the foot

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is moving slightly before the knee the

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knee slightly before the hip and the

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hips slightly before the chest so

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there's this almost duality of try

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to have clear sequencing of the lower

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body before the arms and clawed them

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before the upper body but then there's

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also this fascial connection you want to

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make sure that all the all the links

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between the bodies are not getting to

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disconnect it it's a it's a key source

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for transferring power all the way to

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the arms in club and a lot of golfers

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even very good golfers don't have nearly

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the look of the the connection between

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the different segments that Adam is

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demonstrating here now from the face on

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view you'll again see that total body

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movement and you'll see a pretty quick

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weight shift where he gets his hip over

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on to on top of that lead foot by about

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the time the lead arm is parallel and

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then you can really go into that bracing

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strategy as he goes into the release for

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for the arm and hand purposes he's got

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just classic release stuff so if you

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were to copy one position this position

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that he gets into I refer to as

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follow-through position indicates a lot

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of really good mechanics so he's got his

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his pelvic tilt going on where his

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glutes are squeezing his hip is in

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extension you can see how he's got this

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really smooth curve going from his spine

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all the way down to his foot he's got a

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great arm extension he's got full

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unhinging of the wrist so the club has

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not passed his hands he's it's just very

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good

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mechanically for what we want to do with

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the driver and if you're able to

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accomplish even a tenth of this you're

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probably going to be a pretty good

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driver the golf ball from the

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down-the-line view you can see that he

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hasn't really come out of the spine

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angle he's continued to to side Bend as

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his arms are extending away there's just

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lots of really good pieces here that you

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would want to try to emulate so now I

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want to talk about two things one one

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that goes on with his feet so we can see

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that timing of how quickly he gets into

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his lead foot and then we're going to

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talk a little bit about a shoulder

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girdle so this is a really good quality

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clip here and I think that it helps you

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really visualize and see

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it's going on the timing of when a lot

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of these pressures and things tend to

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happen so you'll see from the face on

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view that it looks like he gets onto his

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left side pretty quickly so by the time

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that left arms parallel to the ground so

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I want you to see a neat little timing

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thing which is once he gets to right

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about there you'll see that foot shift

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back away from the line just slightly

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that foot would not be able to shift

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away from the line if he was still

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actively pushing through the ground so

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he's he's kind of pushed through the

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ground done does his Jackson v or weight

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shift move but it's done by the time he

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gets to about here and then as he goes

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to rotate ya or transfer and start the

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bracing with that lead leg you'll tend

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to see that that trail foot is almost

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free-floating and shifts back just

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slightly so I know a lot of golfers try

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to really push through the the inside

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part of that foot all the way down into

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the in the impact just want you see how

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quickly that weight shift move should

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happen if you're then kind of using more

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of your total body to swing the club as

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opposed to just using your arms if you

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tend to use your arms as the power

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source what you'll tend to see is you're

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going to shift to the bat lead foot a

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little bit slower and use your lower

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body more as positioning instead of

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speed one of the ways you can tell that

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he's using his total body to create

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power is if we get it to this position

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you can see that the club shaft is

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roughly parallel to the target line is

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so is his chest so essentially the same

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thing as if he was standing up and he

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had the club parallel to his chest not

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perpendicular like if you take your

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normal address position right there the

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club is perpendicular to his chest but

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then at this point the club is still

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parallel or even behind his chest and

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he'll maintain that relationship pretty

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much as long as he can and you'll see

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that right around here as he approaches

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impact it's still pretty close to that

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parallel to his chest so the club is

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well behind him the only way the club

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would stay

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well behind him for that long is it if

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he's powering it more with the body

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rotation inside Bend and not with the

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extension of the arms or chopping of the

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arms so then the last little piece would

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be to notice an area where we could

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potentially get some improvement because

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I believe there there's always something

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you can do to improve your swing if

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you're happy with it that's great go for

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it but some of these guys who are best

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in the world are constant to constantly

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tinkering on their swings i'm scott's

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not one of them so I think that and from

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a swing standpoint there's not a whole

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lot that I would change I'm going to

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show you an area where if we focus on

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what's going on up in this region we get

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an idea that there may be some some

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dysfunctional pattern there that could

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be impacting a short game especially his

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putting so what you'll normally see is

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down through this hitting area you would

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normally see a pretty pronounced

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movement of the shoulder girdle or the

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shoulder blade Adam doesn't really do

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that it's almost like his shoulder

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blades are fixed in in position on his

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ribcage so as a result what you'll tend

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to see is you'll see a little bit more

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of a compensation through his neck which

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allows that shoulder to bite by

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compensating with his neck kind of

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tucking his chin and turning his head

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more to the right that's going to that's

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going to mimic the movement of having

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the shoulder working a little bit more

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around you'll see the to the right part

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a little bit more from the face on so

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right about now as the arms want to

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extend he's he's bringing his head

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towards his shoulders as he's bringing

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his neck forward so he's using this

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muscle called the sternocleidomastoid to

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really create some tension on the top of

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the shoulder girdle which will make the

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arm stronger when it then goes to extend

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but the big thing you'll see is as he

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goes through there's not a ton of

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shoulder blade movement and I like this

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camera angle because it's so clear and

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you can see because Adam has pretty

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pronounced back you can see a lot of the

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lines that make up some of the muscles

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around the shoulder blades you can see

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that there is some movement but not a

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whole lot the white shirts are usually

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the easiest to see this so here's an

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example of Brent Snedeker and you can

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see through the ball just kind of the

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edge of his scapula and then through the

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ball you'll kind of see the shoulder

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blade working a little bit more around

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kind of like so again this isn't going

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to be a problem for the full swing

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inspect what he's doing there is going

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to provide a loss of safety and

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stability but it looks like it's a

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little bit locked up the place where

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that would show up would be more of

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cutting because you have as guys like

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Stan Utley have demonstrated when your

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shoulder blades have free mobility it

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makes it a little bit easier to control

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the path and the movement with more the

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elbows and shoulders and a lot less with

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the hands and wrists so I had a little

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trouble finding a good face on camera of

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his short putter putting stroke but

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you'll see that there's a little bit

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more of an arm and hand release as the

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movement appears to be happening a

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little bit more below the elbows and in

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the spine not a ton here in the shoulder

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girdle this actually fits a little bit

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better with his long putter style

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because this can pretty much lock the

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scapula in place and then it's really

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easy to control the face but just by

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having more of the movement at the rib

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cage and the grip position pretty much

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takes the wrists out so he's effectively

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locked this all into one lever and then

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controls it a lot with his body he's

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already shown with his full swing that

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he's really good at controlling

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precision and the location of where this

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club is swinging by using his body so

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this makes a lot of sense for him it'll

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be interesting to see how he holds up to

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transition transitioning to the short

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stroke for this upcoming year where the

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long putter is going to be banned so if

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you like the way we break this down head

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on over to golf smart academy and check

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out our membership program learn all the

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drills that help you build a solid

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transition

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release and some of the key concepts

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that we discussed here in this video