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in this analysis video we're going to

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take a look at the swing of Justin

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Thomas now Justin Thomas is one of the

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young Bombers on tour he's won twice in

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the last calendar year but what everyone

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wants to understand is how does he drive

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the ball as far as he does obviously he

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looks like he's giving it a good lash

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but we're going to talk about some of

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the things that he does to maximize his

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club head speed that might help you with

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your driving distance as well so justin

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thomas's club head speed is about 117 so

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he's not one of the fastest guys on tour

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the guys who tend to lead club head

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speed on tour typically are in the one

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mid 120 s at 117 he's currently ranked

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24th on tour in club hezbi and there's

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another golfer who he's tied with and

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that golfer hits the ball about 12 yards

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further or shorter on average off the

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tee so the question is is not so much

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how can you steal a few extra miles per

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hour of club head speed but how can you

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maximize the club head speed that you're

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getting because if two golfers can have

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identical club at club head speeds and

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one hits at about 12 yards further you

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want to figure out how you can make the

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same adjustments that will allow you to

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maximize your club head speed a golf bio

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mechanist by the name of Rob Neal did a

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video on Justin Thomas and talked about

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how his smash factor was consistently

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over about 17 balls 1.52 so basically

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he's hitting it in the middle of club

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but one of the things that was a the

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biggest note to rub was that Justin's

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angle of attack was about five degrees

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up giving him the launch angle about 14

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degrees so he's got that high launch low

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spin category that you typically see

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with more the LPGA or the long drive

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tour where people are really trying to

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maximize their driver distance we're

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going to talk about two things that he

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does in his swing to help maximize that

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driver distance so many of you are

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afraid of hanging back that's been one

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of the swing things that I frequently

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hear in lessons especially when I'm

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doing the initial interview golfers say

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they need to get on their left side and

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they they are

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constantly told that they're hanging

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back now we're going to look at what

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Justin does that might be interpreted as

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hang back move but it's a good hang back

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move that's common among long drivers of

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the golf ball let's look at the

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relationship between the center of his

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pelvis and the center of his upper body

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so here we can see kind of the ribcage

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right around there is going to be about

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the center of it and there's the pelvis

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right around there's the center of it so

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you can see that he's got a little bit

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of an a lean towards the target at the

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top of the swing now all the magic is

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really going to happen during the

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downswing so when we get him through to

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the end of transition so somewhere

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between those two frames we'll see that

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if we take those two points again we're

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pretty much looking at a square pelvis

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so the center of its going to be right

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around there and then if we look at his

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ribcage the center of it it's going to

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be right around there so they're pretty

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close to on top of each other you can

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see that there's a little bit of a tilt

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away from the golf ball but not very

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much what we're going to see during the

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release or during the remainder of the

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downswing is his lower body is going to

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shift this way and his upper body is

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going to shift this way with a hang back

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move the danger is when both the lower

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body and the upper body kind of stay

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well behind the golf ball and the

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problem with that is it can it tends to

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lead to an overly leftward path or a

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path of the club going way to the left

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kind of like that what we're going to

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see with most long hitters of the golf

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ball is this axis tilt move during the

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release where the upper body is working

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away from the target as the arms are

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extending out towards the target so what

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we'll see is if you use the trees in the

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background or I'll remark those upper

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body and lower body positions if we now

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take him down to around impact and

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that's the closest frame to impact we

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can see there's his rib cage that was

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upper body has moved backwards and we

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can see there's his pelvis center of is

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probably about there so we can see that

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his lower body has continued to move

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or word while his upper body is moved

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backward that sounds like a weird move

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but will break down a little bit how

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he's able to accomplishes that pattern

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is typically going to continue until

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about shaft parallel so all the way up

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until here you'll see that the upper

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body there's kind of the center of his

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ribcage it's pretty close to where it

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was at impact but it's a little bit

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further and the lower body is probably

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going to be pretty close to about where

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it was at that at impact so you can see

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by creating that axis tilt it allows him

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to extend his arms more parallel to the

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ground or even up if his upper body was

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directly on top of his lower body then

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when he extends his arms that's going to

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tend to cause the club to come down in

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more of a steep fashion or and create

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more of a negative angle of attack which

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is definitely going to rob you distance

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now he does some things with his body

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that allow him to create this axis tilt

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and that's what we'll look at from the

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down-the-line camera so from the

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down-the-line camera we're going to look

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at clubface control so when we get to

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this waist height position in the

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backswing you can see that he's got that

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left wrist in a slightly extended

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position right somewhere probably around

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20 degrees or so maybe a little bit less

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and you can see that the clubface is

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just closed compared to vertical now if

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we take him up towards the top of the

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swing and then get him back down to

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about the same point in the downswing

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we're going to notice that both of those

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have changed so we don't have that exact

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frame where the shaft is parallel but we

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can see just before then you can see

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that the lead wrist is in more of a

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flexed position so the wrist has

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probably changed a good 30 maybe even up

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to 40 degrees trail wrist has more

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extension and the clubface is actually

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more vertical so even though he's flexed

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his wrist which should rotate the

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clubface closed because he's shallowed

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with his arms and the club is well

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behind him and the body has powered the

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early part of the swing it's it appears

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that it's more

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compared to the target that combination

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of having shaft rotation from the wrist

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and shallow arm movements allows him to

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power the downswing with his body while

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still maintaining clubface control it

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also allows him to delay the timing of

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his arm so that he can get in this

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really good access tilt or delivery

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position so that when he extends his

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arms the club is coming slightly up

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through impact impact with a club that

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is close to the relationship of his body

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like he's because he's bowed that wrist

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he's closed the clubface

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wirdy lofted the clubface but because of

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what he's doing with his arms and body

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the path and this now D lofted club face

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are moving in the direction of the

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target and that's what helps produce a

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really ideal compression or smash factor

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which helps him hit the ball as far as

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he does so now over on the left let's

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just do a quick comparison we can see a

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golfer who's got pretty much a similar

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relationship that we saw with Justin at

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the end of his transition kind of right

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here but what we'll see is during the

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release his upper body and his lower

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body pretty much stay in about the same

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relationship that's going to cause more

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of a negative angle of attack and you'll

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see that this golfer has some low point

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control issues where he tends to top the

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ball what you'll also see is that this

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goal this golfer was told that he needs

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to get more into his left side you can

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see that his upper body in his lower

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body are behind that left leg so it

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gives the impression that he needs to

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get more into his left side but if we

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compare that to where Justin is at about

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the same point even though Justin's

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pelvis is further forward and into that

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left side his upper body is much further

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behind so if you're struggling with

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mostly with just the driver this access

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tilt thing is a key component to

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creating the proper path now in order to

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do that you have to have a solid release

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and usually I like to build that first

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so if you're unsure on

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what's supposed to be going on in the

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release I'd recommend checking out some

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of our videos in the release section you

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can head over to golf smart Academy comm

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a number of the different concept and

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drill videos to help you understand how

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Justin gets into that position with the

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arms in the hands and how that release

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movement helps support what he's trying

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to do with his body if you're looking

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