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in this analysis video we're going to

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take a look at the swing of Louis

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Oosthuizen now Louis Hazen is one of the

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top 20 golfers in the world right now

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and he's frequently in the top tier of

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ball strikers so driving distance

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driving accuracy or total driving on

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greens and regulation he's always kind

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of in the mix in terms of ball striking

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statistics in this video we're going to

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take a look at the one key that allows

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him to have this great tempo and allows

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that tempo to show up in these really

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highly ranked ball striking statistics

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Louie embodies the idea of let your body

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swing the club so I'm going to show you

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two ways that he shows that he powers

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the swing with his body and that his

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arms are fairly relaxed relaxed and

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somewhat secondary in terms of creating

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speed to what his body's doing so the

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first major key would be looking at this

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movement in transition and looking at

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the spacing between his lead arm and his

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chest golfers who tend to power their

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swing with the body will tend to retain

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that connection longer and longer into

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the downswing

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so you'll see that while the arm is

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dropping down it's it it doesn't come

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flying off his upper body until very

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late in the swing we can compare that to

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a more arm driven swing where we can see

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that the arm is starting to get off of

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the body through this phase here and

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then that results in having less body

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rotation at impact now getting back to

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Louie we can see that as we scrub

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through his swing while he has a tiny

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bit of lower body early extension he

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keeps his his upper body or his thorax

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and relatively the same space and does a

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great job of using his body kind of it's

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a complete unit to power the swing from

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the face on view you can see a very good

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sequencing of that lower body

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transmitting that energy into his core

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and then using his arms last during the

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release so he has very good

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which is part of what shows up to the

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commentators as having beautiful tempo

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now from the face on view we can look at

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his release in a little bit more detail

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because the release I think is one of

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the really telling things about Louis

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swing he's frequently described as

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having this classic swing frequently

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described as having this being this

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great ball striker and i'ma show you how

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there's a couple things that go on

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during his release that would make you

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question some traditional golf

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instruction so for example let's talk

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about the left arm staying straight so

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you can see that he he maintains the

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left arm staying straight here in the

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backswing but now because of his arms

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being fairly relaxed and being powered

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by the body you'll see that that left

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arm is going to change the amount of

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Bend a couple different times during the

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downswing

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so as he gets to his delivery position

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right about here you'll see that the

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club starts working more across his body

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and that left elbow tends to bend to

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help out with it so the arms are

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basically initiating the wipe and

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bringing the the club a little bit more

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across his body to allow for the side

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Bend

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now what you'll see is through impact

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he'll then go back to straightening and

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rotating those arms so he gets into a

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very classic looking arm extension

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position here in the follow-through

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really good bracing position powered the

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swing with his legs in his core

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everything looks great at this position

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but there are a lot of details that can

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get lost when we're looking at this

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release from the face on view you can

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see the similar pattern so you can look

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at that left elbow and you can see that

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as it comes through there's what I call

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a little left arm whip where the left

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arm is going to Bend as it initiated

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straighten through the release that's a

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classic combination of golfers who have

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low body weight and high club head speed

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so we can look and see guys like Charles

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Howell guys like Rory McIlroy guys like

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Sergio Garcia do really well with

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bending of the lead arm as they initiate

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the wipe and then straightening of that

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lead arm as the club works through the

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release here are two of those golfers so

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we have Rory on the left and you'll see

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that left elbow Bend through there and

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then straighten through there so with

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speed you can see or if I scrub back and

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forth you can see a little almost whip

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activity happening in the left elbow and

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left shoulder we'll see the same thing

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if we look at Sergio so the lean arm is

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pretty much locked at this point it will

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Bend and then it will straighten and

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you'll see that elbow or the space

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between his elbow and ribcage kind of

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decrease through impact so it wipes

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across which increases and then it

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releases or straightens through impact

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with that little decrease move it is

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very hard to do that movement with any

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amount of arm tension if all the muscles

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in the forearm and shoulders are very

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tense in an effort to hold the clubface

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in a certain orientation you're going to

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have a lot of trouble having some of

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these fluid movements that add speed and

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help control the low point so one of the

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other little oddities of looking at his

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release that would be hard to do with

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our attention is you'll see that his

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hands actually change on the grip during

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the swing so on the right you have this

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the same video clip at setup as we have

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here at impact so if we look at the

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amount of flexion in that lead wrist and

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the where the V on his right hand is

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pointing you can see the V on the right

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hand is pointing in a similar

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orientation kind of straight up towards

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the sky but you'll see that he has a

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much greater amount of flexion in the

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left hand at impact over here than he

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did at setup here we'll be able to see

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some of this movement a little bit

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easier from the down-the-line view so

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from the down-the-line view you'll see

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as he goes through impact you can see

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that right hand coming off the club

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similar to a V J or similar to a Fred

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Couples or Phil Mickelson type movement

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so what we've seen now is the

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Louie who has this classic golf swing

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bends and flexes his left elbow and his

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hands move on the club compared to where

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they were at setup so if you're trying

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to have say constant grip pressure and

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hold your hands exactly the same way

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that may require too much grip pressure

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to swing the club in an athletic way

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similar to Louie and if you're trying to

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keep that left elbow perfectly straight

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it's going to be very difficult for you

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to have the amount of side bend and the

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amount of arm extension on the way

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through in order to have a release

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similar to Louie

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so one last point about the release and

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similar to a jordan spieth where the

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left arm appears to be bending through

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impact what I want you to see is that

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it's not so much that the arm is bending

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because most of the movement is

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happening in forearm rotation what

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you'll see is that the arm is bent and

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he's having that bent elbow act as a

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stable platform to rotate around this

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will be easiest to see from the behind

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view so from the behind view if that

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lead elbow was really bending

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significantly what we would typically

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see is that elbow would start working

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around his body but what you'll see is

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from from as the elbow starts to appear

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until it reaches that follow-through

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position you'll see that the elbow

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actually rotates and comes off of his

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body towards the target so if he was to

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be if he was bending the arm you would

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either see the hands getting closer to

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the shoulder or the elbow working around

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his side what you'll see instead is that

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the arm is in a bent position but he

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keeps it in that bent position as his

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forearms rotate that's another good sign

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that that Louie is having a relaxed or

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soft arm movement and allowing the

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rotation of forearms to transmit that

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force all the way into his back

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that's a safer way to absorb speed which

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is part of the reason why he's able to

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create the kind of club head speed that

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he's able to do

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so if you want to have a classic swing

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like Louie first thing I would do is I

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would recommend trying or experimenting

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with having your body power to swing and

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having very relaxed arms now if your

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arms are relaxed through impact and you

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struggle with contact issues that

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frequently means that there is more of a

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movement or technical issue not so much

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a timing and tempo issue so if you relax

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your arms and your contact gets worse

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then I would recommend taking a look at

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the drills and concept videos inside the

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membership area golf smart academy under

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the release section to understand

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exactly what each arm needs to be doing

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in order to release the club like Louie

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Oosthuizen