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And this analysis video, we're going to do a quick comparison between gym fury and

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Matt Wolfswing, the see if they're really doing the same thing.

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So I see a lot of comparisons right now between Matt Wolf and gym fury.

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And I'm going to let these play through so that way if you're watching, you can go through

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and use the little, the comma or period case.

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You can frame back and forth and look at these swings and decide for yourself how similar

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they really are.

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Okay, so from one perspective, we can say that they both have a pretty big shallowing movement.

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We can see that the club kind of has some rotation in there and then the Matt Wolfswing,

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club has some rotation in there.

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So there's a pretty big, clean shift at the top of the swing.

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But that's pretty much where I think the similarities begin and end.

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If we look at Matt Wolfswing, we can see that there's not a lot of wrist movement and

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there's a lot of body movement to bring the club up to the top of swing.

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The body's happening from the hips and the trunk.

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When we look at gym fury swing, we'll see that most of the body movement is done here

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in that first part of the takeaway.

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He doesn't have very much pelvis rotation, he doesn't have very much trunk rotation,

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and he simply creates the height with the shoulders.

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Because he hasn't rotated, if he was to then really rotate his body, he would get steep.

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Everything would come outside the line.

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So then he creates a big shallowing movement at the shoulder, where Matt Wolf,

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because he had this big body rotation, his body can rotate and the shallowing movement

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is going to happen more at the wrist.

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He doesn't have to create this vertical arm movement of his shoulder on the way down.

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He can essentially keep the arms at a more consistent height compared to his body,

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and then shallow with the wrist while his body rotates pretty hard.

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So if we look over here with the gym, we'll see again a really big arm.

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If we're looking at the height of the arm compared to the chest,

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we'll see that there's a really big drop down there through transition as his hips turn out of the way.

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As his hips turn out of the way, you'll see that there's kind of a hinge,

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or there's a lack of communication from the lower body going into his chest.

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So basically his chest stays fairly close, then then it has a pretty good right through there,

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and then it has a pretty good rotation through impact,

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where Matt Wolf does a great job of rotating his lower body in his trunk,

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so he gets into a really good delivery position here,

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and then he can go a little bit more vertical and really kind of fire those arms down through impact,

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where because of gym's position, he can't really fire those arms through impact.

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It's more of a arms are along for the ride type situation.

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Now, while I think their engines are very different,

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some of the nuances of what makes them good at what they do is extremely different,

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I do want to highlight one little thing, which is if you are going to have a really big shallow movement,

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you cannot have a lot of forearm tension.

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So we're going to key in on two places where we can see that both of these golfers demonstrate

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softness, especially in the right hand at the top of the swing.

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All right, so we're going to look from two different views, but we're looking for

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what's going on with the right hand. So here with Matt Wolf, as I talked about in the

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driver analysis video, you'll see that right index finger open up and kind of come off the club,

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and it's going to stay, while the pressure of the index finger stays there,

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the, he's not gripping the club, which would be more of a sign of, of some tension in that

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top side of that forearm. So by having that hand a little bit more soft and open, that allows

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for that rotation and then he kind of re-grabbs onto the club right around here. Okay, so now

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if we look at Jim Furik and we go to the down the line view and set the face on view,

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it's not going to show up exactly the same, but as he does his shelling movement, you can see

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a gaping or a shadow appear between the right palm and the glove hand. In fact, when we get

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down to a kind of in this zone here, you can see that a lot of that right palm has come off the

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club. And part of that is because with where his elbow is that far behind him, if he was to keep

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the hand in contact with the club and he had normal joint range of motion, the club would be steep.

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So the only way that he can have the arm behind and get that amount of shallowness is to have

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the trail hand actually coming off the club. Well, if you're gripping really hard with that

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trail hand, you're probably not going to have it come off the club and then he gets it to re-attach

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kind of down in this zone here. So one big takeaway you can learn from studying these two golf swings

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is that if you want to have the club shallow in transition, you don't want to squeeze it really

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tight with that trail arm. But I want us to understand that simple plane shifts don't really

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indicate that every golfer is using their their body the same way. I would say that

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Matt Wolfe and Jim Furik are demonstrating two very different looking golf swings. They have one

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common element that that makes them easy to compare. But if you're trying to like learn how to

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apply it and understand your own swing, you want to understand some of these nuances of

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what powers this swing, so how are they using the body, what helps them make solid contract

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contacts, so how do they control their steeps and shallow balance and then how do they hit it straight,

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how do they control the club face, if we're looking at it more from that framework,

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then these two have very different golf swings.