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in this analysis video we're gonna take

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a look at the evolution of Jack Nicklaus

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golf swing so I had a student ask a

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question of obviously swings change a

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little bit as you get older our golfers

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pretty much trying to do the same thing

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and just the bodies won't cooperate or

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are they trying to do something

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different because of a changing buck so

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he submitted the this picture and

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basically you can see that the impact

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position looks very different whoa is he

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trying to make a different impact

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position or is it just the same thing on

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a different body I don't know for sure

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what Jack Nicklaus or any of the other

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golfers that I'm going to analyze as

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this evolution kind of series works on I

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don't know exactly what they're thinking

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but I have a few kind of theories as far

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as what stays the same and what changes

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so what we'll take a look at are what

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stays the same which is typically gonna

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be triggers and sequencing and then what

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changes which is typically going to be

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range of motion the steep and shallow

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blend and bracing okay so here we have

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two different iron swings and if we look

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over on the right we can see let's take

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a look at triggers first so you can see

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his little head head cocked off to the

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side and as we go into the takeaway

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you'll see that 30 years later or so

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he's got that little head movement to

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start the program and some similar

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patterning so we can see that he's kind

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of trying to do the same thing now we'll

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see that as he gets towards the top of

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the swing we're gonna notice some pretty

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big differences one we can look at range

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of motion so as we look over here on the

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right we can see that he got his hands

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up a whole lot higher his lower body

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rotated a little bit more maybe not a

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ton more but we can see that there's a

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pretty big difference in the amount of

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turn of his upper body as well as the

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amount of side Bend

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so he's developed some stiffness

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in the spine region and as a result the

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arms are going to not gonna create

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nearly as much depth so since he's

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trying to do the same movement but he

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has a blend of these steeps and shallows

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the way the arms move and the way the

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body moves if you take away some of the

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body movements it's going to change that

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relationship so having that amount of

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rotation and side Bend tends to create

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deeper arms which helps create shallow

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now he also is able to keep his head at

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about the same height so what we'll see

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as we kind of start through transition

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you'll see that his trigger for starting

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the downswing is definitely a lower body

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but we'll see that some of his kind of

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steeps shallow blend is going to be a

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little different you'll see that his

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head stays at about the same height and

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as a result of his head staying about

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the same height you can see that his

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arms do a nice little shallow movement

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there's lots of stories of Jack Nicklaus

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working with his golf instructor and his

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instructor holding his hair to try to

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keep his heads though we can see that he

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did a pretty good job in this particular

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swing of keeping the head kind of at the

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same level now older Jack if he didn't

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have the head on and if his coach had

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been holding his hair you can see he

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would have struggled a little bit there

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in the backswing and we would see that

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he would struggle during the release so

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who knows if that stand up move is just

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part of Jack's natural tendency and so

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his coach helped him to work on his

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pivot control by holding his head and as

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a result of working on the pivot control

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and having holding his head he forced

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himself to learn how to shallow out with

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the arms we can see that if he has a

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slightly steeper arm movement and now

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his body is standing up those two are

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going to balance each other out but it's

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not going to give us quite the same flat

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spot and it's going to

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not allow us to power this wing quite as

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intensely with the body so we'll take a

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look from a different perspective and

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we'll look at the bracing strategy

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that's going to be a result of both the

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path as well as the range of motion and

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the impact conditions that he creates as

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he's evolved his swing over time so

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here's a interesting find we have almost

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the same camera angle but these swings

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are taken about 40 years apart so over

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on the Left we have 2014 the masters and

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over here on the right he was about 30

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in a competition against Lee Trevino so

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if we take a look at the movements to

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the top of the swing again we see that

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same trigger and head movement and we

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can see that it's kind of a similar

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patterning of what he's trying to do but

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it's shortened because of the range of

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motion especially not nearly as much

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back rotation right we can't see nearly

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as much flexibility here in his rib cage

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and that limits his ability to create

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that arm height now what we'll see over

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on the right is a very good sequencing

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getting the lower body to start and then

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he gets well open so when he comes

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through you can see that those arms kind

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of do a really good job of releasing but

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continuing to straighten they don't

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really Bend he gets into some tremendous

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side Bend and rotation positions now as

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you as you get older once you've passed

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about 65 or so you tend to lose about a

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third of the amount of side bending

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movement you can maintain some with

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flexibility and strength training but

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you're going to lose a little bit just

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as the natural degeneration of your

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spine so what we'll see is in 2014 he

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still sequences and still starts with

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his lower body but we know that he

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didn't have as much

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room for his arms because he didn't have

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as much rotation so he didn't creep the

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shallow depth that comes from rotation

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to the right so even though he sequence

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his lower body first and then his arms

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because his arms are going from a

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steeper position he uses more vertical

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body movement and not quite as much

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rotation so he's not gonna get nearly as

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open as he did over here on the right in

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his prime and so as a result you'll see

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as he comes through less body and

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steeper arm movement is usually going to

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result in those arms bending sooner so

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you'll see that as he goes through that

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left arm starts bending pretty much

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right after impact where if we scrub

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through those frames back and forth over

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here because he's doing more of that

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bracing movement with his lower body his

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upper body's in a better position he's

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able to really extend those arms have a

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really solid release so there's

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obviously been some changes over the

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40-year period but I'm gonna show you

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what's interesting is if we look at just

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this three-year period between two of

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his ceremonial first tee shots we can

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see a little bit of change so over here

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on the Left we have Jack Nicklaus in

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2011 and over here on the right we have

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Jack Nicklaus in 2014 so it's only three

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years apart he's 71 in on the left and

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74 on the right so the the age

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difference isn't that great but we can

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see that there in the span of a few

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years we can see some changes starting

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to kind of take place it's not a great

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frame rate but if we scrub back and

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forth we can kind of see the amount of

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body movement over on the right we'll

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see a little bit less kind

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of coure and hip movement where this

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will really show up will be in the

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follow-through strategy or the bracing

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strategy so he does a little bit more

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lower body initiation of his transition

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and so as he comes through you can you

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can see that left arm staying mostly

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straight as it kind of works with the

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body rotation now over here just three

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years later we can see that as he comes

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through because he doesn't have nearly

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the amount of body rotation you can

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almost assume that he was in a steeper

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position and we can see that that lead

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arm just starts bending almost instantly

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through impact so while he's well his

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brain is trying to power the swing and

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kind of control the path in a similar

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way because of the path relationship and

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how it's working with his body he's

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absorbing the speed differently in these

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two frames or in these two swings so one

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of the one of the things that we'll see

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from some of the other examples is if

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you're able to maintain some of your

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flexibility and strength it's going to

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be a lot easier for you to maintain a

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more similar swing and kind of have it

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deteriorate slower but what will happen

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is if you if you get stiffer and you're

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not able to create the rotational depth

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of during the backswing we will tend to

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get steeper with our arm movements which

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then causes more of a body stand-up move

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and less of that body rotation move if

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you want to understand your swing and

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you want to understand the different

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pieces of takeaway setting the club

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transition the release and what to look

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for in this bracing strategy that I'm

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talking about

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