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in this analysis video we're gonna take

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a look at the swing of Arnold Palmer now

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Arnold Palmer was the first golfer to

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really make golf cool so every golf

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instructor owes a debt of gratitude to

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Arnold Palmer he's allowed us to make a

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living at something that we all enjoy

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and has really helped shape most of our

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lives in this video I'm gonna help you

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see how his sequencing and the way that

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you used his body to power the swing is

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something that you can try to emulate

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I'll also talk to you about how as you

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get older potentially your path and

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you're bracing may change and Arnold

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Palmer changed with grace you'll be able

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to see him hit some quality shots even

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though his body changed because he kept

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that sequencing and body powered swing

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so we're gonna look at Arnold Palmer's

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transition from a couple different

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swings so here are a couple swings and

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what I want you to focus on is looking

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at the timing of his lower body changing

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direction so what's happening is during

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the backswing he's shifting his pressure

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into that back leg and he's gonna push

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with that back leg to stop his body from

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rotating away from the target and then

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he's gonna keep pushing in order to

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trigger rotation towards the target

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so we'll look from a couple different

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views so that you can kind of see the

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timing of when he's really pushing

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against the ground but you'll see is

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particularly with this driver swing over

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on the right how his lower body is

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changing direction while his arms are

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still finishing the swinging then as his

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body changes direction he's basically

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using his whole body to pull through his

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arms on the club so the early stages of

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the downswing you're not gonna see a lot

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of straightening of the arms you're not

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gonna see a lot of arm activity it's

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more body movements getting the club

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into delivery position and then the arms

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transferring that energy during the

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release over here on the Left we'll be

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able to see this in a little bit greater

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detail because of the frame rate so

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right around here he's starting to push

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in the opposite direction you can see

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how his lower body changed direction

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before his arms and club change

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direction even on a iron so it doesn't

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only work when you're trying to

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my max power link with the driver and

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you'll see that his body has brought his

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arms down into about this delivery

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position before there's any real

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straightening of that trail elbow

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I think if his sequencing was beautiful

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and that's part of the reason why he was

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able to have such a consistent career

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over such a great period of time so we

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have lots of drills on our site to help

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you work on powering the swing with your

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body as well as working on your your

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timing tempo in sequencing and I think

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that's one of the things that Arnold had

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trained early in his swing that allowed

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him to have such good success now one of

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the trademarks of our no swing is that

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unorthodox finished and I always preach

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that if you look at Arnold at about

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waist height or what I refer to as

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follow-through position you can see that

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it looks classically just like any of

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the great swingers in the golf ball it's

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really how he absorbs speed from this

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follow-through position into the end of

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his finish and from watching him do a

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couple of these drills you can see that

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he was working on potentially keeping

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his head down and pointed at the golf

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ball longer and so that would stop body

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rotation so he wouldn't be able to

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absorb as much of the speed with body

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rotation if he did a lot of these slow

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motion or shorter drills with the

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extended emphasis on keeping his head

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down so one of the ways that you could

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then absorb speed would be going more

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into the shoulders and that's

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potentially how part of his unique flair

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for the game really developed but if you

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look at what he does during his release

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through follow-through if he then just

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continued his body and let that left arm

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fold naturally while letting his head

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rotate around he would have looked he

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would have had a more classic finished

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position than what he currently or what

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he did throughout his career so

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hopefully by learning the different

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pieces of the swing that we talked about

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on our site you'll be able to understand

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which parts of the swing are just your

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style and which part of swings are

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critical pieces what Arnold did as part

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of his finish is more of a style

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movement

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than a critical piece he had all the

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great critical pieces of powering the

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swing and a great solid release to get

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into that very classic looking

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follow-through position

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Arnel frequently shared a story about

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how he was told to keep his grip exactly

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the same and that's a great fundamental

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but what this camera view is gonna show

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us is the fundament fundamental of using

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that lower body sequencing to help him

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initiate his transition

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so with this close-up view you can

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really see through here that just as the

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arm leaves camera view his lower body is

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already starting to push in the

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direction of the target remember you're

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going to push before it shows up on

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movement so he's pushing through that

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right leg probably starting right about

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now and then he's just going to keep

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pushing to help him shift his weight

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before that left leg is going to push

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right around this period here to help

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him initiate his release now one of the

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goals of this series of videos is to

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show you how how swings evolve as you

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age and so here we have two different

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swings of him around 80 years old so

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well after his prime but what you'll see

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is that by his ability to maintain his

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sequencing you'll see that his lower

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body still starts well before his upper

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body and you'll see that he keeps the

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the arms a little bit more passive and

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during the early stages of the downswing

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and uses them more actively during the

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later stages or during the release so by

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keeping that same sequencing he was

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still able to hit some really quality

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golf shots even well into the ages of

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the early 80s so now on the Left we have

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him hitting one of his more famous shots

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in his later years this was a driver off

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the deck at his own tournament and

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you'll what you can really see again is

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the timing of when those arms get

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involved now if you've tried delaying

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the timing of your arms and you tend to

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either hit it off to the right or you

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tend to

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it's stand up a little bit more in hid

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behind the golf ball then it usually

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means that you have a clubface closing

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problem and the the sequencing or the

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reason you fire your arms too early is

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because that's how your brain

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coordinates where the clubface is

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pointing there are better ways and ways

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that match up with the body sequencing

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that Arnold is all on Palmer is

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demonstrating in these clips ok so over

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on the Left we have him with a mid iron

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and then over on the right with a mid

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iron in during the par-3 contest again

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more in his Twilight playing days but

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what what you'll tend to see is with his

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younger swing he's gonna finish his

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backswing more with his body pivot and

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with a fair amount of left side Bend you

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can really see the steepness of the

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shoulder plane so the shoulders pointing

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well or very close to the golf ball and

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you'll see them maintain that position

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into transition it's kind of more

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typical of a body powered swing now over

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here on the right you can see that he

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doesn't have nearly as much flexibility

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so his arms separate a lot more as he

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gets towards the top of swing and his

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arms are gonna work in more of a steep

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position so what'll tend to happen when

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those arms get into a little bit more of

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a steep position is it's harder to close

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the club face and so you will tend to

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have those arms Bend a little bit more

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on the way through so we can see that

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he's using a little bit more of an arm

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powered swing as he got older but the

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driver swings that we saw before he was

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still able to produce some of the body

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powered sequencing when he was able to

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stand a little bit taller so when you're

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working on your flexibility maintaining

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side Bend and thoracic spine movement

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it's gonna be really helpful for being

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able to play great golf as you get older

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because that's naturally one of the

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movement patterns that people tend to

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lose first so if you want to understand

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how to sequence your body like Arnold or

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you want to understand how to square the

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club face so that you can sequence your

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body

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