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in this analysis video we're going to

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take a look at Sergio Garcia now Sergio

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Garcia is known as a great ball striker

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on tour and his swing is characterized

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by the incredible narrowing of the arms

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during transition of a club to the arms

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during transition we're going to take a

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look at a couple other key moves that I

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make think make his swing work as well

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as what makes it different from those

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he's often compared to such as Ben Hogan

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so the first move we want to look at is

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the narrowing or the hinging of the

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wrist in transition so every swing

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vision I've seen or was able to download

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highlights how narrow this angle gets

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right there and how it keeps decreasing

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I'm going to show you that some of that

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is some is a result of more what his

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upper body is doing and the shallowing

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moves that you use as opposed to an

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actual anatomical change when we look at

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hinging of a wrist as if you were using

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a hammer

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the the anatomical normal is about 25

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degrees so from this point of view if

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there's 90 degrees it's not quite but it

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looks like he's hinging his wrists about

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45 degrees which would be double what

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all the physical therapy books would say

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is anatomical normal so if we look from

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this obscure view or from the overhead

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from behind if we get him down to about

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the same position you can see that that

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left arm is kind of in that range and

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this is it's it's definitely less than

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90 degrees but nowhere near this 40

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degree angle that we're getting from the

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face on view so part of it is this

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optical illusion that he's really

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hinging his wrist where that optical

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illusion comes from is more of the

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flattening of the move or the rotation

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of the forums combined with the fact

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that his upper body or his thorax is

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still pointing well behind the golf ball

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so over on the right we have John Senden

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John Senden is another golfer who

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doesn't rotate

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his upper body in his transition and so

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as a result it will give the appearance

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of an extremely narrow extremely reached

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wrist movement in transition so for

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example here we have Jason de and you'll

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see that this whole unit is going to

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rotate as a result of the thorax

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rotating here in transition if we

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compare that or if we imagine how we

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could kind of switch bodies if we go up

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to the top of the swing here with with

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Sergio you'll see that his chest stays

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pointing over here and his arms pulled

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down while his wrists flatten that gives

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the appearance of a much greater angle

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than if everything was to rotate

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together um he's over here Jason de has

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his wrist hinge probably not quite as

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much as Sergio Sergio with his wrist

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movement would probably look similar

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over over like this on the same kind of

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comparison if we were to take Jason de

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with his upper body rotating a little

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bit more through transition and put his

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wrists over on Sergio they would

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probably look something more like that

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so if you want to give the appearance

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that you are really reaching your wrists

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in transition try to keep your chest

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facing away from the target longer that

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will help take away some of the slack

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through that lead arm which will

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maximize how much wrist hinge you can

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create it'll also give a little bit of

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an optical illusion that you're creating

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more than is humanly possible so now

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that we've discussed the hinging of the

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wrist let's take a look at what I think

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is more unique in Sergio swing which is

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looking at his body pivot as it relates

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to the this arm movement so you'll see

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during the backswing he's one of the few

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golfers who gets on to the outside of

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his foot because you can see the inside

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of his foot rolling there and you'll see

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that he gets towards the outside of his

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foot and there's a lot more knee action

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then as he starts down you'll see that

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there's a good amount of rotational

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movement but there's not very much side

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bend as in it's almost as if he's

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staying very

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vertical with this pelvis or underneath

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the thorax or kind of creating and

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access like this and he's spinning

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around it with his lower body and legs

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while he's doing that he's pulling down

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with his arms in order to create some

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power so if he was to use more of say a

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Jason de arm movement he would be very

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steep so that arm dropping and extreme

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forearm rotation is going to shallow the

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club which balances out that steeper

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body movement than what we would

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typically see you on tour the other

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thing is as a result of being in this

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steep position he will tend to have a

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very late shallowing move as in you'll

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see that from as he goes into the

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release compared to most he'll have an

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even more pronounced amount of side Bend

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through the release because he didn't

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have any of it happening during the end

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of transition so very few amateur

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golfers would be able to handle that

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much late side Bend and having they'd

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circle with having the arms in this

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steeper position so from the down the

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line what I mean is typically once an

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amateur golfer started that tumble move

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they would tend to reach the wrist and

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the club would continue working very

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much to the left but because Sergio

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imparts this late shallow body movement

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that gives him a very classic looking

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kind of finished position right out in

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there so very few amateurs would be able

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to make that transition it's very much a

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body controlled release style and he

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does a great job with it and has become

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one of the best ball strikers on tour

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he's frequently compared to Ben Hogan

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what we're gonna do now is let's look at

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Ben Hogan's movements and compare them

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to Sergio so that you can see that while

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there's a similarity in the narrowing

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movement of the arms that's pretty much

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where the similarities end when you're

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comparing those two swings okay so just

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so we can have fresh image in our mind

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of what we're comparing with Sergio

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there's that kind of narrowing movement

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of the arms if we were to take Ben Hogan

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you'll see he has that similar look of

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very narrow arms and that look is

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created mostly because of this forearm

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rotation where basically you can see

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Sergio is one of the more extreme in the

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fact that you can see his hands at this

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point already pointing up towards the

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sky Ben Hogan's kind of in that same

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category which gives the look of an

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increased hinge in that angle now if we

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were to run through or scrub through his

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transition you'll see Ben Hogan had a

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very pronounced lower body shift and

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rotation and you'll see that he controls

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a lot of his swing with his hips if we

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look at his right foot you'll see that

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he does not get to the outside of the

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foot he does a great job of pushing off

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the inside and then through the release

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you'll see that continued side Bend and

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rotation happening at the pelvis so

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because he has more of this side been

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accomplished through transition you'll

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see that Ben Hogan still braces in his

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upper body put goes back some but

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nowhere near the same amount that Sergio

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Garcia did during his release so Sergio

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is powering more with this rotational

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movement of the knees and feet not quite

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as much at the hips as a result his

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upper body is more on top of the lower

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body you'll see that he doesn't have

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nearly as much side Bend when the hands

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are about hip height and then as a

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result he has to side Bend late as his

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arms complete their release so the body

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pivots and the release styles and the

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transition powering are very different

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between these two golfers the only

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similarity is that form flattening

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movement but I think there could be some

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better comparisons between someone like

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Sergio Garcia and someone like John

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Senden then between Sergio Garcia and

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someone like Ben Hogan so if you like

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