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In this concept video, we're going to look at power sources.

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So I try to keep my videos in the short couple of minute range.

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This one is going to be a little bit longer.

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So grab a sheet of paper, get ready to take some notes because power sources have a big

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impact on a lot of the golf swing.

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Before we get into looking at the golf club and power sources and how they affect that,

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let's take something a little bit simpler like throwing a ball.

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So if I was to grab a few golf balls here, I'm going to demonstrate a couple different

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ways that I could throw a ball.

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Basically, power sources are what's driving the movement.

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So I can drive the movement, I can help transfer, I can control.

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There's a few things that my body can do.

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Driving the movement is what I'm referring to when I'm looking at power sources.

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So I could throw a ball with just my wrist.

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I could try to lock out everything and throw it with just my elbow.

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That had a little wrist involved because it's hard to take out.

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I could throw it with just my shoulder in kind of an external rotation or get more complicated

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when I put them together.

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If I were to slow that down, you would see that I went kind of shoulder then try

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separate elbow and then finally wrist.

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Well, we could do the same thing for vertical jumping and perhaps it's a little bit easier

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to look at.

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So if I was to vertical jump, I'm going to squat down.

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I could push through my calves, right?

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I could do kind of an ankle jump.

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I could push more through my knees and do almost like a quad jump.

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You'd see that that had less hip extension.

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I could do a hip extension type jump, which is a little bit more ideal.

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I could even do a back jump if I throw my arms up and I jump with my back.

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So those are two examples with kind of the vertical jump in the throw.

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In sports, there's going to be one of two different tendencies that you're going to

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tend to see.

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Either I'm going to try to activate muscles in a sequence or I'm going to try to activate

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them all at once.

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So in a throwing example or a striking example, typically you are going to try and go from

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what's called proximal to this order from the ground to the implement.

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So if I was throwing a ball, I'm going to try to activate my lower body and then my trunk,

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then my shoulder and then finally my arms.

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If I was doing a strength activity, like let's say I'm doing a heavy squat or deadlift or

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to make it even more fun, let's just say I'm pushing a car.

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So I've got my hands up against the car and I'm going to try to push it.

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We got it neutral, it's out of gas and I got it to the gas station.

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I would want to activate everything pretty much simultaneously.

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I wouldn't want to push with my calf and then push with my hip and then just last push

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with my arms because the whole chain would break down.

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So there's these two different, if I'm there's these two different kind of requirements.

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If I'm trying to create speed, I do one thing, I do sequencing.

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If I'm trying to create strength, I activate it all at once.

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So that's an important concept because a lot of golfers are going to use that strength

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concept for golf, even though in golf we're more towards the speed end of the spectrum.

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So now let's get to golf and let's divide the body into a couple of different segments.

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So we're going to look at basically the lower body, we're going to look at the trunk and

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then we're going to look at the shoulders and arms.

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Now ideally we want to use our entire body and we want to use it in the balanced sequence

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faction.

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So basically from the top of the swing we want to use our lower body, then we want to use

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our trunk, then we want to use our shoulders, then we want to use our hands at the very

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last second.

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So that gives us kind of a maximal speed and it more importantly doing so is the more

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repeatable way to produce the ideal path that we're trying to create.

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Now the last little kind of overview topic is looking at are we creating speed in a short

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rapid fashion or we're creating speed in a long slow fashion.

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If you look at the long drive tour you'll typically see both of these examples.

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You'll typically see guys who kind of get wound up really explosive in their lower body

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clubs almost at about parallel and then they just kind of explode and use as much as they

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can.

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Then you'll see guys who tend to cover a big range of motion get those arms really

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vertical really high all the way as high as they can and then they kind of smoothly

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accelerate the club over this long range of motion.

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So those are those two different tendencies of either kind of short explosive, you know

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quick fast twitch muscles or long slow where I got to cover a big range of motion.

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One is not necessarily better than the other but if you're trying to maximize distance

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you want to figure out which is best for you and you want to figure out how to maximize both

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in the ideal situation.

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One last little important tidbit is when we're looking at loading a muscle you'll hear

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load up in the backswing, you know load your core, load your x-factor you hear load a whole

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lot.

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What the heck do they actually mean when they're saying load?

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Load is essentially just stretching a muscle.

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So right now I'm standing if I wanted to try and jump going to be virtually impossible.

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Why?

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Because I haven't stretched or loaded any muscles.

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If I was to turn this way and now I bend my ankle, well not going to be able, let's

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see.

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So if I bend my ankle but I don't use my hips so now my hip is still pretty much in a straight

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line.

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I'm not going to get much hip explosion but I could jump pretty well for my ankle because

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I stretched it and I loaded it or I stretched it or I loaded it.

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Now in a good squat I'm going to stretch my ankle, stretch my knees, stretch my hip and then

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I'm going to do what's called triple extension, I'm going to go foot, knee, hip, bang vertical

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jump.

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So in the golf swing when we talk about loading up we're simply talking about stretching

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muscles.

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We're going to get into how we can use each of these three major powers.

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We're just using my lower body, my trunk and my core or my shoulders and how we're

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going to stretch them when we're going to stretch them and what affects they have on the

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path of club.

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So if you haven't been taking notes yet this is when we're going to get more into the

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golf section so sit back and enjoy.

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So even though you want to use your entire body and you want to use it in a relatively

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balanced fashion in golf, unfortunately all of us come from different backgrounds.

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We all learned and moved differently when we were young so everybody's going to have

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a dominant power source or two.

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It might be very slight or it might be very dramatic but the net effect is going to be

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about the same.

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So if we were to divide the body into its thirds so we got legs and then we got hips,

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the hips could possibly be either a leg or a core joint depending on how they're

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used.

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We've got trunk, we've got the shoulder blades, the shoulder blades could either be a core

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or an arm component depending on how they're used and then lastly we've got the shoulders

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in the arms.

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You'll notice that as I break this up I'm not talking about the wrists as a power

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source and mostly the reason for that is you're going to see the power source is get the

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club moving before I then initiate the release which means that the vast majority of the

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power sources are going to be shown during the first third of the downswing or if you look

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at the kinematic sequence most of the body segments are going to reach their peach speeds

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by the time the arms are kind of about chest height somewhere in there.

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So the majority of the release is more transferring the speed than actually creating the

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speed.

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It's possible to use your hands and wrist to create speed but it's better if you can use

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them to transfer.

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The reason I say that is what you'll see with the majority of long hitters is during that

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first third when everything is starting to really transfer speed the wrists are still the

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wrists and the elbows are still kind of loading they're not really transferring that speed

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yet.

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So let's take a look at the three major power sources and how they affect different

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or how you can use them and how they would act the first area or the shoulders.

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So the shoulders have a couple different movements and there's a variety of different ways

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that we can load them.

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I can load them in either this is up down or flexion, can load extension or extension

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can load flexion.

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I can do addduction to load ABduction.

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I can do ABduction to load addduction or basically are across this way and I can rotate it

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so I can load internal rotation to fire externally.

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Let's look at what the common sources are.

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If you are a shoulder dominant player you will tend to have very high hands.

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That helps you load the shoulder joints.

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It does not help you create more speed from gravity.

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That's just kind of one of those wives tail not really backed by science.

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Might do a while back to the great post where you explain.

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Order for gravity having effect.

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Yes you need more height but you also need more time and the time doesn't change nearly

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is dramatic and the height is very small.

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If we are only going this much and how much gravity can actually help you load, it's not

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so much that you are getting more gravity to your loading your shoulder joints and the

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muscles around them.

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So the common ones for the left shoulder are going to be loading across your body like

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so so that I can then fire this way through the wall.

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That's a very late release of that one and then raising up to load dropping down.

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Now typically when you raise up you want to make sure that you keep this connection in

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the shoulder as opposed to letting that shoulder blade collapse because it will affect how

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you can transfer energy through your core.

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That's why the shoulder blade is one of those kind of bridge joints.

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The right arm, so the right arm, one of the biggest power sources is going to be this

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tricep extension.

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Our sub-sucre a lot of speed.

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I'm also going to load external rotation just like so to then transfer with internal rotation

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down very late and I'm going to have a little bit of this addduction to load a reduction.

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So there are some guys like say a Fred couples or a jacknick with you get up to the top

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of swinging really high hands and have a really big load of this shoulder.

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Right a load as in they stretch their peck muscles a lot like so.

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Now that can be a great power source or it can be a detriment because what ends up happening

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is for those good golfers they're able to then reconnect to delivery position so that they

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can transfer through in a good release.

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What a lot of golfers do is if they've stretched their shoulders all the way as much as they

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can at the top of the swing then physically I cannot lead with the rib cage or I cannot

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lead with the lower body than the rib cage because I have no slack.

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If I stretch this as much as I can or as much as I safely can I can't increase it.

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So it messes up my sequencing and when ends up happening is the arms tend to fire more

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from the top of the swing.

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So I get into this position and now that would be kind of that following good jacknick

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less Fred couples movement where it goes boom and it's kind of a power source because I'm

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using that shoulder joint to help create the speed versus what a lot of amateur's do.

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So they get very high up here and then it's just all arms and shoulders because the arms

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and shoulders fire right away from the top of the swing.

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If you remember from the beginning ultimately we want to fire legs core and then show

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way that overloading or overdoing the shoulder load can cause problems.

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It can relate to a few of other of the other issues such as sway or loss a posture.

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So a sway if I was to let my lower body go this way even if I did a good sway where

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I keep my foot planted.

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I was to let my lower body go this way.

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This really helps me load that vertical movement of the shoulder joint so it really helps

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me load the shoulder.

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The guys who tend to be a little bit more compact like so they're going to tend to be more

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of the lower body driven swings.

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So if you're trying to balance it like if you're already going at 100% of what your shoulder

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is going to do and you're trying to add a little bit of legs then going a little shorter

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maybe a good option for you.

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But if you're already leg driven and you have a long swing but you just don't use your

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lat it may not be the best method.

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So it's important to understand what your pattern is and what your dominant power sources

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are and how they're affecting your swing.

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You can also fall into if you're loading the shoulder joints too much.

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What typically what can happen is you can have a little bit of this loss of posture because

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that actually helps load that shoulder joint.

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So one of the big ones especially on the left side in this shoulder joint is going to be

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the lat.

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The lat goes from my shoulder down to my pelvis.

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So the further I get my shoulder away from my pelvis like so the more it's going to load

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the lat.

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Well if I bend this and bring this up I'm actually loading a bit of this kind of chop

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movement a little bit of that I'm creating some extra load.

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Now it may affect my path and my consistency and it very well probably well.

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We get to that at the end section.

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The last one is if I overdo this you will tend to see some early extension late because

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if my arms as you'll see when we get into how they affect path will tend to if I overload

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the chop movement will tend to create more of a steep angle of the tack and so I'd

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Charles Barkley it and just slam the club into the ground unless I went early extension

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very late to help balance it out.

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So remember the power sources are going to show up in the first third when you're looking

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at your swing on video.

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So you can have early extension that happens right as you start down and you're going

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to have early extension late.

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If it happens late it's typically more of a path driven thing.

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So if you see that shoulder spin or that arm pull and then early extension I would be going

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after the power source first.

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So working down the chain the next piece is going to be the trunk.

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So the trunk has a variety of different motions that it can do as well.

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So the trunk can turn right this is more of an oblique driven, can rotate.

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It could crunch so it can flex this way to create power.

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It can side bend like so either direction and it can do an extension extension piece kind

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of like a back extension.

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Now each one of those is going to have a different effect on the path of the club.

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Now if you use your core in the right way it's going to help load the shoulder during

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the downswing.

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So instead of the shoulder is getting loaded all the way at the top of the swing they'll

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be let's say 85% loaded and then the core is going to rotate and that's going to create

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that extra 9, you know, 10% of load.

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So I've got my shoulders just kind of loaded and then when my core goes now I've got that

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loaded in my shoulder.

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So using each segment properly is going to help connect things work on your sequencing

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and get a really good path.

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So let's talk about how these different core moves can mess up the path.

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If I was to rotate that is going to create more of a steeper angle of attack.

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If I was to side bend that's going to create more of a shallow angle of attack.

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So frequently what the best players in the world tend to do is they're going to combine

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side bend and rotation so that if my hands basically stay out in front of my body now that

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helps them come down on a good path.

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What a lot of golfers do is they will either not side bend and they'll just rotate and

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crunch.

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Now the club is coming down steep or they will side bend in back extension and the club

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is coming in way too shallow.

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So those are the common issues that I tend to see with the trunk and the core and how it

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can affect the path.

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Let's take a look at the legs, one of the biggest power sources and how it affects

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your golfers.

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So now let's take a look at the legs and the common movements that they can do.

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So the common leg driven power sources are going to be a spin.

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I'll even let my feet go so you can see I can spin very powerfully.

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I can push side to side kind of like a speed skater or I can vertical jump.

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Now the best players are going to actually do a combination of all three of those movements.

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So they're going to have a little bit of the slide as they rotate and then vertical

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jump late.

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So that helps create the transfer through this core into that left shoulder.

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As I slide I'm loading against the ground.

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We'll talk a little bit more about that.

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So as I slide I'm loading against the ground or I'm compressing against the ground so

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that when I then drive that leg you can help create this side bend and trunk rotation.

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And when I say loading against the ground what I mean is there are a couple different

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kinds of ways I can use the ground for force.

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But in order to move my legs I've got to have some friction that's why we wear spikes

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and why we use the wear metal spikes.

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Because that allows my foot to grip against the ground which gives me something that

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I push off of called ground force reaction.

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Well the more that I push down it's almost like if you remember from the karate kid

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Mr. Miyagi put his hands together, pushed and as he pushed he'd move back and forth

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and the friction would create heat.

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If you just put your hands together but you're not pushing and you just go back and forth

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it creates very, very little amount of heat.

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The more that I push down in either foot so that's why you'll see Roy Macaroa Tiger Woods

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a lot of really good golfers have this drop movement in fact it's virtually impossible

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not to as if you're making a really good golf swing.

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So I have this drop movement which is like pushing my hands together and now that they're

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pushed together I can kind of really push them apart or I can really push through the ground.

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If I tend to just go into say back extension vertical jump now I can't push against the

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ground as much and I'm left with just kind of throwing my arms.

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So you'll start to see some of these patterns of how people are creating speed.

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Again if you look up until about the lorry position so that first third of the downswing

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is where the majority of the speed creation is really taking place.

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Now that you've taken a look at the major power sources and how they look even more

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at how they affect the path but the major power sources of legs, the major power sources

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of the trunk, the major power source of the arms.

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I'm sure you're thinking to yourself oh man I'm a arm dominant swinger I'm a lower body

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dominant swinger how do I balance it.

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My first word of caution is to make sure that it's truly a power source problem.

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Let's take an example.

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So if I have a grip that's very much in the palms in very, very weak, right so I'm

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kind of like this and the club is coming down, the club face is coming down super open.

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This is almost as open as I could get it.

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If I see myself as a jump and I think oh I'm over using my power source of my lower

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body I better get my upper body moving and start to use my core more.

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Well you have to understand how that's going to affect the path in the face.

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Basically I want you to make sure that you have a solid face the path relationship

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during the entire downswing and that you have a pretty good control of the path before

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you start making any major power source changes.

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Because if I was doing this example where I'm wide open like so and then I was to add

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more rotation a shank the ball like crazy that jump is all I have to help me square

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the club face.

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So you have to make sure that what you're actually working on is a power source problem

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and that there's no barriers to working on that power source problem.

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And when a lot of golfers start working on their power sources the common pattern is to

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go from zero or from 100 to zero as opposed to 150, right?

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When we see these golfers make this golf swing you'll see a blend of these power sources

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and it just doesn't look like they're really swinging too hard at least not on TV.

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You see them in person you'll see that they're swinging pretty hard.

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But they're using each component a certain percentage.

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So let's say I'm using 70% of my max of my legs, 70 my core, 70 my arms.

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That's going to look very, very comfortable.

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Now let's say I've got an amateur golfer and we're using kind of a hundred arms and it looks

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kind of like that.

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What will usually happen is at first you're going to have to go down to zero and then

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build it back in.

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So you may go from all arms to now you're doing it like a teadriller or something like

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that.

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Now you're doing all legs and there's no arms and you're still struggling hitting the

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ball because you will have to figure out what it's like to feel this new power source

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becoming involved and then add your existing power source.

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So if I do that teadriller and I'm getting all legs and core starting to feel comfortable

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with it now I can add a little bit of arms there kind of at that last point somewhere

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in here.

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So it's very common to go from all to none but notice or recognize that I don't want

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you to completely neutralize your main power source.

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I just want you to learn how to use it and balance it.

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Looking at your swing you can see what power source is you naturally use well.

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If you naturally use your legs well you will tend to see a lot of this vertical jump

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or a lot of leg dry.

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You tend to see your core you will rarely see a dominant rotation.

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What you'll tend to see is you'll either have kind of a back extension or you'll have

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kind of a chop pattern.

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If you tend to use your shoulders well you'll tend to see maybe a little bit of sway

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to help load it.

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You'll tend to see a very vertical big arm movement.

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Understanding what you have will help you help guide you how these key movements work

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into your stock full swing.

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Let's take me for an example.

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I played a lot of tennis growing up and I loved hitting top spin.

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So I developed a good power source of leg drive back extension.

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Leg drive side tilt back extension because I could I was you know kind of a skinny little

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crunk, strongy kid but I was pretty explosive and I could create a really massive top

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spin with a big loop.

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Wasn't good for me but I had fun doing it.

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What that did when I started to play golf is I was a great driver of the golf ball almost

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instantly because I would tend to use my lower body and then that extension and now I'm

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in a very shallow path and I have no problem hitting a nice kind of rope draw that rolled

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the long way.

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Other golfers say I have a client who was a swimmer.

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So he and he swaying mostly with his arm catch so he had really big lats really strong

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powerful upper body.

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He tends to be more of an arm dominant swinger so he'll struggle a little bit more with

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the driver.

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If you tend to be more of an arm dominant movement it's tend to it's going to tend to

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get you a little bit more steep a little bit more leftward.

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You'll have the tendency to hit a fade and typically be better with the wedges typically

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better with the shorter clubs have a little bit of trouble off the tee.

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If you're more of a leg or an extension or side bend driven golfer you're going to

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tend to have better driving or long game you're going to tend to struggle a lot with

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the wedges because the wedges are going to be much more of a club-faced relationship to

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path with a shoulder driven swing where the driver is much more of a path driven movement

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from the lower body.

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Now one word of caution is as you go through this process of trying to balance things

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out typically what will happen is you're going to need feedback other than just what

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you're feeling.

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What will happen is when you try to change your powers versus it's going to feel not

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powerful at all.

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Frequently I've had golfers who loses little as a mile or two in club-head speed but

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actually pick up distance because of better path-face launch characteristics but they

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will tell me I can't play with this it doesn't feel good.

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Which means that one of your challenges is to get the new powersource involved but also

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connect it with the brain so that it feels powerful.

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For me I have to add a whole lot of shoulders if I want to try to hit the ball further.

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So while I don't necessarily think about firing my lower body any more aggressively because

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I already fired pretty aggressively I think about really kind of loading and pulling with

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both the left and the right arm almost like I have a cable and I'm going to attach it

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so that I can pull down.

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And I do that.

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I tend to actually feel smoother.

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I don't feel like I'm swinging, sorry.

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But now that I've practiced with it for a while I do actually pick up distance.

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In fact if I really add my wrists and my arms as best I can I can pick up about 25-30

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yards from my stock swing.

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But when you take a look at my videos and you see me demonstrating my stock swing.

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Keep in mind that I'm using it from a framework of a lower body driven swing which

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means that I'm not going to have as vertical arm movement as say a jacknickle is or something

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like that.

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But I don't want you to get confused with things like, was it one plane, is it two plane?

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The big thing is during the backswing that body stays relatively centered, right?

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We talk about how to control that pivot.

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Wherever you go from the top of the swing and during this little load, can you get into

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this delivery position, which is somewhere around here where the elbows either on your

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sides lately in front, but it's kind of connected towards your body, club faces in a good

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position.

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I'm down and then prepared to kind of deliver the ideal release.

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So I don't want you to get caught up on trying to have kind of a short compact swing the

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way that I do unless you have a really lower body driven swing like me.

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You can have vertical arm height, I have a lot of students who get that arm height, but

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it's important to understand what that arm height signifies and what it means that you

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can ultimately work on if you're trying to balance your swing and improve your consistency

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with your stock move.

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I know that that's a lot of information, but I think that it's very important for you

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to understand.

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You can create speed from anywhere within your body, knowing your dominant power sources and

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how they affect the path is going to make it that much easier for you to understand what

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your common mispedad turns are.

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If you are an upper body driven swinger, please check out the cast section.

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If you are a lower body driven swinger, please check out early extension.

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There are lots of pitfalls that you can fall into just based on where you like to create

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speed and a lot of these things that you may see on video or have people tell you could

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be a result of these power sources and not necessarily the real problem.

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So understand your power sources will help you understand your swing and ultimately improve

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your consistency and enjoy them in the game long term.