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in this analysis video we're gonna take

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a look at Bubba Watson but Watson is a

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lefty and one of the longest hitters on

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tour I'm gonna show you that he's got

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some classic movements to his swing but

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a few things that are a little bit

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unorthodox that would give him some of

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his unique looks so Bubba Watson is

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known for shaping pretty much every shot

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and hitting the ball a long way kind of

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playing with reckless abandon I'm gonna

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show you how he has a lot of classic

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characteristics to his swing a lot of

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things that I like and that we see in

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the the stock tour swing model and we're

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gonna go over a few of the things that

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give him kind of some uniqueness to his

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swing especially in the bracing in the

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follow-through so if we if we look at

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his backswing you'll see a fairly

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classic kind of one-piece takeaway from

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the down line you'll just see that

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there's one of his kind of trademark

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moves is he'll you'll set up with a

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little bit more of an open stance but

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that doesn't take away from his

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one-piece takeaway so it's largely a big

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big body movement muscles of the core

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hips and trunk that are moving the club

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away but he does tend to use a little

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bit more of the arm lift which gives the

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club the appearance of going a little

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bit more outside the line not that that

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really matters what that does is that

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helps create a little bit more of this

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vertical arm movement which he's then

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going to shallow out very nicely in

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transition so at the top of the swing

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you'll see that since distance is a

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priority of his you'll see a big full

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turn so you'll see lots of movement

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happening at the the ankle they need the

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hip the ribcage the shoulders all the

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way up through the chain but you'll see

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that he did even he did a great job of

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keeping his arms someone out in front of

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him even though he's had a ton of lift

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you can see that the trail elbow hasn't

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worked its way behind his body into a

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stuck position you can see if his trail

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elbow had worked behind his body we'd be

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able to see it kind of in this position

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over here so because his arms are still

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in an okay position even though he has

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this long swing

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you'll see that his first movement with

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his arms during transition is to really

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shallow out the club and get the the

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back of the left wrist roughly parallel

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to his shoulders or perpendicular to his

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spine so he has a really good job of

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shallowing out from the arms you'll also

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see that he does a tremendous job of

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sequencing the lower body as his upper

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body drops down he's kind of compressing

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against the ground to give him something

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to really push with you can see that his

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lower body opens up very very nicely I

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use the the the barrier of kind of by

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about the time the lead arm is parallel

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to the ground if you're if you're going

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for power you want to have your hips

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relatively square that's showing that

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you've started this swing more with the

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lower body than with the upper body here

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you can see he's he gets his hips back

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to square when that left arm or when his

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right arm is still well above parallel

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so kind of in the same position with

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these two swings so it's a tremendous

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job of sequencing the body and he's got

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lots and lots of flexibility which

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allows him to then have this kind of

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exaggerated look but now as he

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approaches the livery position he's

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continuing to power it with his body

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he's continuing to shallow it with the

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arms and he's squaring the clubface very

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nicely so when he's in this delivery

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position you'll see a pretty good

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variety of where he likes to have the

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club the shaft plane well where the club

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is where the club head is in relation to

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his hands all those affect his face to

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path and he's really good at moving

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around the face that path to have larger

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amounts of curves so from the face on

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view you'll see that transition move he

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does a really good job of getting his

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lower body to start and then he does a

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great job of setting up for his bracing

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so this has been largely a body pull on

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his arms and then once he gets to right

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about here we're now gonna start the

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release and so what you'll what you'll

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see is he does a great job of pushing

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through that lead leg to kind of create

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this little chain reaction that's going

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to cause the

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arms in the club too then want to extend

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as he goes into a release but he's done

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such a beautiful job of positioning his

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body that his arms are able to extend

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freely and he gets in this really

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classic looking bracing position now one

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of the unique things that you'll tend to

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see is that movement of his lower body

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or his feet through the through impact

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you'll you'll tend to see this vertical

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movement with a lot of golfers who hit

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the ball a long way compared to their

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body weight so skinnier golfers are

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gonna tend to have to rely on this

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pushing vertically against the ground in

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order to create enough friction to

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create enough rotational speed

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now he's shallowing his sequencing his

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release all that stuff looks very very

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classic one of the things that gives

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Bubba some of his trademark uniqueness

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and kind of flair is his follow-through

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movements and his his finished position

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so once he gets through this bracing

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into his follow-through position right

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about here what a lot of golfers would

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do is they would continue rotating their

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upper and lower body while the arms kind

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of were the speed of the club was being

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absorbed more by the body instead of the

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arms Bubba is a little bit unique in

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that he tends to freeze his body and

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absorb more of the speed in his arms and

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wrists through the movement there and

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then his body just kind of casually

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rides that momentum of the arms and the

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club up to the finish so instead of

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using more of his hips and his trunk to

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absorb the speed you can see him hinging

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this knee a little bit which is usually

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coming from that hip flexor and you can

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see his upper body kind of bracing and

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moving back that way so instead of

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absorbing it with bracing through the

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hips and the trunk he's absorbing it

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with more of his quads his knee and more

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of his shoulders so it gives a little

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bit of uniqueness to his the way the

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club exits because right around here

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everything is pretty classic if his body

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just can't

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rotating then it would look very much

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like a Jason day or an Adam Scott but

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what happens is because his body hasn't

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really continued rotating the wrist

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helped the club past the body very very

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quickly and then because the body hasn't

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continued rotating the arms now start

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moving in a much more vertical almost

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hold off look to his follow-through so

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as a fun comparison I flipped Adam Scott

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because normally when they're comparing

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Bubba or Phil for the rabies they flip

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Bubba or Phil to the radiation but I

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want you to take a look and see a lot of

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the similarities so we've got a fairly

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similar amount of body rotation you've

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got really good arm extension slightly

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different positions of the shaft and

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clubface but overall a lot of

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similarities there so now what you'll

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see is as the club passes his body he's

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now his primary goal is no longer

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controlling the path of the club it's

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now safely absorbing the speed of the

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swing and so what you'll see is it's

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largely the risks that are absorbing the

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speed of swing and then his body just

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kind of stays facing towards the fairway

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like so so if we take it to about the

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same position where the hands are about

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the same position what you'll see is

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that Adam Scott has turned his body a

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good twenty or thirty degrees and that's

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where he's absorbing the speed of the

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swing as opposed to Bubba doing it

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mostly in the arms of the club it'll

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look a little bit more exaggerated when

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we look from face on so now looking at

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Jason day we can compare some of the

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things from the face on so you'll see

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that even though they had very different

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looking back swing loads we're getting

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into a similar unloading pattern as we

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move Bubba through those similar

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positions

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you'll see that again compared to what

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we had with Adam Scott not a dramatic

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difference he's a little bit further

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behind so he's bracing slightly

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differently what we'll see now is as the

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club passes

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Jason's midline he's absorbing it more

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with body rotation and trunk rotation so

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you can see that it's mostly the hips

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and the shoulders there's not a lot

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going on there with the wrists so now if

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we take Bubba here he could be doing the

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same thing but what ends up happening is

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once he gets through the hands passing

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the midline now most of the absorption

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is gonna happen in the wrists and

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vertical movement of the knees as

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opposed to continuing rotating his trunk

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and core so this is one of the cases

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where the Flair and the uniqueness to

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his swing is kind of at a point where I

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think it's non-critical unless it was

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unless he was battling some type of

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injury either in that lead knee or

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potentially in the neck shoulder or

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elbow area I wouldn't see any reason

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that you'd have to change it because

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he's having great success with the face

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to path relationships he's having great

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success with sequencing and powering the

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swing and gets into a really good

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bracing strategy it's just that

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absorbing of the speed after all the key

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movements of the swing are done so if

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you want to understand which movements

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of your swing are critical and which

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