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in this analysis video we take a look at

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the swing of Rickie Fowler

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now Rickie Fowler has made some pretty

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big swing changes under the tutelage of

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Butch Harmon he's played really well the

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last couple years and so it's no wonder

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that a lot of students have some

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questions about what swing changes he's

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made and why they've been so helpful so

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in this video we're going to take a look

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at them one major swing change that he

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is made with the help of Butch Harmon as

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well as his fitness trainer but then

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we'll highlight a couple of the other

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things such as how his swing is

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typically compared to both Sergio Garcia

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for this lay down move as well as Rory

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McIlroy for his right leg straightening

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and almost reversed hip thrusts I'm

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gonna help you understand that what he

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does is very different from those two

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golfers as well as helping you

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understand how sequencing has played a

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big role in his improvement under Butch

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Harmon now sequencing is one of those

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kind of catch-all buzzwords that we like

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to use to relate to how one body segment

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is interacting with another so the big

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area where Ricky tended to struggle was

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in using the muscles between his rib

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cage and pelvis so over here on the left

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is a close-up video from 2010 and then

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over here on the right is a close-up

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video from last fall now we can see that

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the take away positions are very

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different the forum relationships are

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very different we can also see that he's

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over on the right Ricky has a little bit

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more muscle mass he he worked out pretty

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hard when he started working with Butch

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Harmon and that can be contributing to

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what he's able to do with his core

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because here's what we want to see in

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transition and this is the movement that

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I think a lot of golfers amateur as well

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as some professionals miss out on and

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that is connecting the pelvis to a

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ribcage so as we look through and as we

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scrub through back and forth in

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transition what you'll see is that his

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pelvis is leaving behind his upper body

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so if you look at kind of this area

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right in here that's close to the bottom

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of his ribcage even now

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there that's close to the bottom of his

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ribcage and close to his lap muscle so

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what you'll see is his pelvis rotates

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away from that part and you'll see that

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there's not a ton of rotation happening

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it's a little bit more of a side Bend

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movement so there is some rotation but

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you'll see that the dominant movement is

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going to be more with that side Bend and

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it's not until he gets down to right

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around here that his rib cage really

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starts rotating we're in his new version

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what you'll see is his pelvis is still

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going to start a little bit before his

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lower body which it's good for it to

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start before the upper body for the

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lower body to start before the upper

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body but you want to make sure that that

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rotational movement of the lower body is

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transferred or connected to the rib cage

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so what you'll see in the more recent

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swings is you'll see that this part of

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his rib cage is rotating much sooner

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than where he was back here six years

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ago again back six years ago he had a

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little bit more of a side bend movement

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where now he's having more of that

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rotational swing activated and that

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rotational sling is going to help

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steepen the path of the club so yes his

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arms are in a better position at the top

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of the swing but the relationship

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between the arms in the upper body looks

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even better during the downswing because

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he has included more of this upper body

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rotation if he didn't rotate his body

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then the side Bend movement that you

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would tend to see is going to rely on

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more of an arm pull as a power source

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where over here on the right he's going

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to be using a little bit more of his

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total body to speed up the the club head

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as a result of having that body power

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that downswing now we're going to see

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that his arms are able to work a little

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bit more left and he's a look he's able

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to have more body rotation through the

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shot we're over here on the

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on the left he's got less of the body

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rotation so his hands work a little bit

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more out to the right through the

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release one key takeaway for you is if

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you look at a down-the-line video

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looking at where your upper body is and

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looking at where your arms are those are

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the two factors that are going to relate

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to where your hands are going to move

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through the ball are they going to move

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out towards the target line or are they

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going to move left following your body

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if they move left and and the arms are

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straightening then the only thing that's

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going to be pulling them left will be

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body rotation of the ribcage golfers are

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always compared to each other and one of

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the golfers who Riki is frequently

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compared to is Sergio especially in

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transition now probably less so with

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more with his more modern move that

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doesn't have quite as much of the arm

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drop but what you'll see is that his

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movement in transition is actually quite

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different from Sergio's if we look at

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the body movement of Sergio you'll see

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that if we had a kind of imaginary wall

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right here you'll see that his upper

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body and his head are working down this

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way and then he's having a lot of

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shallowing movement with the lead form

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so as we go through transition you'll

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see that his upper body works down his

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rib cage works down and he creates all

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of a shallow a movement with what he's

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doing with his lead form and trail

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shoulder now if we look at Ricky what if

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we draw that same line up against his

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forehead what you'll see is that during

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transition his shallowing movement is

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going to happen more from his upper body

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working away and from hand drop and

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creating depth not so much from the arms

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shallowing so while there is a

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significant plane shift I think

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comparing him to Sergio is actually

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comparing drastically different

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movements but similar flesh shaft

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position since their transitions are

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different you'll see that through the

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release

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they have very different looking

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movements as well you can see

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differences in the arm extension

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direction you can see differences in the

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amount of rotation and side Bend and you

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can see pretty dramatic differences in

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the overall hand path now the other

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golfer who Riki is frequently compared

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to is Roy back Roy and the place where

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their comparison typically exists is in

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the straightening of that right leg in

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the little reverse hip movement during

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the release so you will see that both

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have a print out straightening of the

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legs and Rory does have the reverse hip

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movement and so does Ricky but I want to

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show you that there is a drastic

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difference in how they use their pelvis

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during the downswing so as we go up to

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the top of the swing I want you to key

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in on the amount of slide of the pelvis

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and more importantly the rate of slide

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of the pelvis what we'll see with Rory

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over here on the left is that he's going

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to shift over onto that left side

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relatively early in the downswing

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roughly by the time the hands are at

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about between shaft parallel and arm

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parallel and then what you'll see is

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because of the orientation of his pelvis

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being behind his foot when he goes to

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push through his legs it's going to

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cause his pelvis to brace and it's going

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to cause his pelvis to elevate

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lovely-looking pelvis movement when we

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look over here now when we look at Ricky

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he does create a lot of speeds we know

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he's using his legs but you'll see that

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his way slide pattern is going to be

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very different from more of the classic

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looking swinging of say and Adam Scott

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or Rory McIlroy well we'll see with

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Ricky is he's going to have some early

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hip slide but then what you'll see is

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his hips continue to slide the rest of

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the downswing so he doesn't move as far

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as early as someone like Rory McIlroy

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and so because this pelvis is working

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more across his body or in the direction

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of the target

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you'll see that as he approaches impact

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his pelvis is more on top of his foot

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than say a Roy McAvoy so as a result

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he's going to have all the bracing be

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vertical with his lower body and then

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he's going to have to brace more with

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his rib cage and shoulders it's not

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going to be able to brace with this

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whole sling the way that rory mcilroy is

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demonstrating so while it's tempting to

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compare similar looking shaft positions

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and group golfers that way I like to

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look at the different movements of

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transition and release and build the the

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categories of swings more around power

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sources and how you're controlling the

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path and face to path relationship when

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you do it that way what you'll see is

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that Ricky has a unique move that works

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great for him and he has some really

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good pieces you can see that he's done a

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lot of work both with his swing

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technique as well as in the gym in

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strengthening the connection between his

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pelvis and his rib cage and that's

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resulted in some better play so if you

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like the way we break these swings down

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and you'd like to have your swing broken

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down or you'd have liked to have a

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certain golfer analyzed please don't

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