[Golf Swing] Technique vs. Skill What’s More Important?

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what's going on everyone

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if you guys uh can give me a sound check

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by a little chat

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i suppose i should say something as well

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to make sure yeah yeah that way you can

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hear me

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yeah make sure both of them they can

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hear both of us

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you're coming through good on this on

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this end adam okay

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good

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thanks dan appreciate it

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hey gary from virginia

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good sound hi greg

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all right people are coming in yeah

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we're going to give everyone we'll give

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everyone a few minutes

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hey oliver

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happy to have you

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john how you doing

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thanks dave the view will get better now

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we'll take

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our faces off yeah

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some good visuals yeah after the intro

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the view will get much better

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all right cool

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i'm ready abby i i suppose we could get

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the introduction

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yeah i'll go all the way because that's

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the boring stuff people don't care about

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that's true we'll go ahead and get

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started because i want to be uh

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appreciative of everyone's time and

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especially adam who's who's joining us

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tonight

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so some of you may have been to a few of

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these in the past that we've been doing

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over the last

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six months or so some of you guys may be

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new but um today is going to be awesome

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you guys are going to learn to play some

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better golf

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and we brought on a great guest so

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before i introduce him uh let me just

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introduce myself real quick

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i'm sean mcconan i'm the founder of up

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glove

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for those of you who are not familiar

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with up glove we make golf gloves we're

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um normally uh we've been

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in business well we've been shipping for

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two and a half years been in business

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probably for a little bit over three

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i am a huge golf fanatic i'm one of

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those people who

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are reading and watching videos

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basically

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all day on golf and tinkering with my

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swing probably

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way too much but i'm hoping adam's gonna

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fix me tonight so i don't have to do

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that anymore

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um i'm a single digit handicap

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and uh that's pretty basically about it

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we're based in um

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uh yeah john i appreciate that adam did

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try something i tried them i really like

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them a lot i've started practicing more

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recently and

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um yeah i i like

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the gloves a lot and i like the price so

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i go through so many gloves that it's

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it's a good deal for me because even i

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hate as a professional i hate paying

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you know exorbitant amounts for for a

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glove that's going to get torn up

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right right um

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so that's a little bit about me we're

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based in tampa florida i live in tampa

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florida

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originally from cleveland ohio my browns

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are on tonight we're going to whoop on

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the ravens and go 10 and 3.

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um our guest today is adam young

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for those of you not familiar with adam

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young he is a

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i think he's an amazon and international

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best seller

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he wrote the book called the practice

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manual the ultimate guide for golfers i

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believe that's what it's called is that

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right adam

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yeah it's actually up oh up there here

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it is

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there it is um adam has

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um coached at the the ledbetter

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ledbetter academies he was also worked

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at turnberry yes that turnberry

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yeah yeah yeah so that that's amazing

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and adam has one of the

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one of the best golfing blogs in the

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industry

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he gets over a million views on his blog

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a year

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um and he he's one of the brightest

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minds in golf

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so we're definitely all about my head

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too much

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his ends in the moment we're definitely

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fortunate

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to have him um to have him join us

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um and it's a pleasure to be on i

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suppose

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yeah yeah thanks and adam just real

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quick before we go ahead and get into

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the presentation

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um why don't you tell us like a little

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bit about like your

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your coaching background yes um i would

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consider myself at the moment a

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uh i it's so hard to say a simple

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coach a simplistic yeah i i don't

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i can go really in depth and i'm

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actually gonna

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show you some of that in this

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presentation i'll take you down a road

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that you'll probably

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you'll start to build your knowledge and

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you'll go oh this is getting a little

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bit too in-depth and then also now reign

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it back into something really simple

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because that's that's kind of how

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coaches or most coaches operate we learn

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more and more about

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it we learn about everything from you

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know the brain

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psychology motor learning as well as

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just how the swing

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functions from a movement perspective um

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but we we often have so much in-depth

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knowledge but we can't give all that to

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everybody

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on the lesson team we often have to say

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something very simple that's going to

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get them to hit it better instantly

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and last as well and so you know

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hopefully at the end of that you'll get

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educated

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but you'll also get something nice and

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simple to take away from this

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oh thank you bernard that's awesome

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so well with that being said i'm sure

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everyone's

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raring to go why don't you uh kick us

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off

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and start telling us how we can play

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some better golf

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yeah i'm just going to share my screen

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all right can you see that okay

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yep yeah okay so

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the biggest part of my phil philosophy

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surrounds

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or is about impact it's

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uh the most important part of the swing

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if someone has to say

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which is the most important part of the

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swing you can't really deny that it's

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impact and so

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here we see a video of rory mcilroy we

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see the club

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coming into impact and then we see the

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ball

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struck here and then we've got

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one two maybe three or four frames where

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the club is in or where the club is in

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contact with the ball

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and then the ball leaves the face and so

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everything that that ball does

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is a result of that little part

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in space there's four frames or so so

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from here one

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two three four maybe even less than that

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i mean the ball separates pretty quickly

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so i mean there are lots of things that

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the ball that takes

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from the club face in terms of

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information we could say things like the

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loft of the club at impact

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so that determines a lot of the launch

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and we can actually see the ball fly off

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here and it's

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yeah it's perfectly matched up with the

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loft there

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so the loft determines the majority of

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the launch angle

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uh we have some other things like the

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angle of attack i'm sure a lot of people

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have heard of angle of attack

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so i'll give you a basic of that if i

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just draw a dot on the top of the club

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head there

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and draw another dot a few frames later

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so we could say roughly this this club

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has about an eight or nine degree angle

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attack into the ball i think that was a

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wedge he's hitting

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so there's loft angle of attack we have

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the speed that the club is moving as

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well so all else being equal the

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faster club heads are going to produce

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bigger distances

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and we have the club face direction so

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whether the club face is pointing more

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to the right or to the left

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hard to do that from this angle uh what

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else do we have we have where we strike

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on the face and you can see a few frames

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later here you have where the club

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enters the turf

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so the ground contact

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so lots of players they think that

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hitting the ground is a bad thing it's

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not

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you can see that mcelroy hits the ground

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so much here that that shaft

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that club shaft actually has quite a

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significant bend to it

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so the pros will hit the ground pretty

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hard and look at the size on that divot

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and it's not necessary to take a huge

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divot but

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it doesn't really matter the size of the

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divot

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because it comes after the golf ball you

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can see the ball is struck

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first then the divot happens so the

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divot is irrelevant

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because by the time that club has

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entered the turf there that ball has

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already left the face it's already

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received

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all of the information that it needs to

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the problem many amateurs have is they

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obviously hit the ground too early they

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hit the ground first

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in a fat shot or they

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don't hit the ground at all in a thin

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shot or bladed shot or even a top shot

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so yeah ground contact is very very

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important uh as is face contact so i

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think we got most of the ball flight

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laws there are seven ball flight laws or

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seven impact laws i should say

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so seven bits of information that the

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ball receives from the club face at

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impact so yeah if i was to summarize

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that for you

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i would say this yellow area

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is the most important part of the golf

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swing

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anything you do whether you lift your

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arm up steeper whether you flex your

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wrist whether you take a different grip

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whether you swing harder or softer it

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will only influence the result

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in as much as it influences that yellow

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space there

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and so this ball can't see that that's

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mcilroy you can't see it the ball

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doesn't care

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the ball doesn't care where that player

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was at the top of their swing or what

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grip they have here

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i mean those things might influence

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impact but the ball doesn't know that

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and so it's just an important

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thing to remember for me it was a light

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bulb moment

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but for many of you might know it but

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maybe you don't live by it as much

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so in order to contact the ground in the

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right place so that we're going to talk

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about

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two main things here we're going to talk

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about face contact

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and ground contact and so ground contact

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if you think of the swing as a circle

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around your body

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or circular ellipse shape whatever you

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want to call it it's round

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ish um you have a part of that

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arc the red part where the club is

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traveling down

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then you have a white part of that arc

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where it's leveling out

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and then you have the blue part of the

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arc where it's traveling back on the

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upswing again

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and so the white part of the arc we

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would call that low point

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the low point of the swing circle

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and so with a professional as we saw

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with mcilroy

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what happens is the club should come

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down or should be traveling on the

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downward part of the ark

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it then strikes the ball

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the ball leaves the face and then the

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club enters the turf

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in the vast majority of shots that where

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the uh where the ball is resting on the

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turf that will be the case

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the times where that's not the case is

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with a putter obviously you don't want

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to

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take a chunk out of the green and with a

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driver

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um but even even with a long iron off

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the

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off the turf or a hybrid off the turf

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you will probably be doing something

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like this

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you might not dig in as much with a

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hybrid because it's a much

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much fatter uh soul to it

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right and so bringing the ball back into

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play that's what it looks like the

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lowest point of the swing

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is actually in front of the golf ball

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now it can be in front different amounts

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it could be maybe

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half an inch in front two inches in

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front with pros

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with a seven iron it can be as much as

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four inches in front of the golf ball

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i think that's about average about four

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inches in front of the golf ball

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that club is traveling on the downward

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part of the arc so whenever we say hit

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down on the ball

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i don't necessarily like that phrase hit

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down because

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it can kind of ruin the movement a

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little bit i prefer to think of getting

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the low point further ahead of the golf

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ball so that actually takes care of the

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downward part of the strike

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so all pros have their low point in

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front like that but that's not enough

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unfortunately in order to strike the

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ground in the right place that's not

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enough

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you also have to control your arc

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depth so there's a second component so

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think of arc depth as the up and down

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motion of the club or the up and down

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motion of the

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hula hoop the circle so i've got this

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little visual here so this is the case

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this is a pro

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low point this is exactly what we see

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mackerel i do

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but if he were to accidentally drop

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half an inch or so into the ground you

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can see that affects low point as well

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or that affects sorry the the ground

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contact

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so you can see now with the drop in

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height that ground contact has shifted

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back

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and it's actually one of the more

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important things in golf we hear

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i think some of your more advanced

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golfers will have already heard of low

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point but they might not have heard of

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arc

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depth and that's actually more important

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because you can see a small drop in

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height can actually result in a

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very significant drop or change in

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ground contact

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and the reverse would be true as well if

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we were to

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raise that arc back up you change the

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low point you take

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you tend to move the ground contact

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forwards

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and sometimes we can raise the arc depth

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so much that we start to thin the ball

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so any fins or fats might be a result of

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low point issues

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or arc depth issues i told you this will

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get complicated don't worry i'm gonna

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bring it back in a little bit but it's

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all about

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striking ball first then turf and there

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are two components to that how deep you

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go in

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and where your low point position is

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gets way more complicated than that

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actually

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now with low point so we could move the

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low point back

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and forwards low point could move around

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like that back and forwards

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and those things can be influenced by

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things such as weight shift

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so you know if you were to shift your

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weight towards the target more

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aggressively you'd probably move your

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low point further forwards

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and if you had your weight on your back

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foot like many amateurs you'd probably

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have your low point further behind them

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and so we want to get that low point or

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that weight shift

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nicely in place so our low point isn't

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in a good place

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so weight shift account uh relates to it

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our release weights relates to it as

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well so whether we release early or

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later

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you don't need to pay attention to these

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things i'm just telling you how

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complicated or how complex it is

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right um and we even have swing

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direction

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can influence low points so if someone

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swings to the left

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you know an over-the-top player that

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will actually move the low point

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forwards

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and if someone swings excessively from

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into out that will move the low point

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back

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so all these factors go into play

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now with arc depth there are hundreds of

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things

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that relate to it so you could drop down

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or up

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from your knees flexing or straightening

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uh even your ankles flexing or

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straightening so some people jump up on

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their toes and that can change the depth

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that you go in

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um if your spine any one of the

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vertebras going up or down

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in movement can change that you could

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have

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uh your shoulder retracting or

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protracting moving back and forth

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the socket that can change it whether

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your shoulders are open or closed will

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change it

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um whether your lead arm is flexed or

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extended so straight or bent

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will affect it so if he comes to the

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point where it's like

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oh my god this is impossible

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how do i control all of these things

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how on earth am i going to control all

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these things and that's the

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issue that many amateurs find themselves

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in because they try to

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control one variable so say they say

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right i'm going to take out one variable

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i'm going to straighten my arm

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and keep it straight throughout the

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swing well the problem is that's only

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one variable that relates to arc depth

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you could have a poker straight arm

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throughout the swing and still your

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knees flex or

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extend a little bit too much and all of

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a sudden you've hit it six inches behind

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the ball

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too much too much right side bend or

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trail side

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or anything exactly exactly and these

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things can all change as well i mean if

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you

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i'll actually bring up a video of tiger

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woods

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um so this is this is a great visual

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this is in 2001 when he was the best

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player in the world i'm going to show

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you

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his head height so he starts here

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he swings back maintains his head height

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pretty well

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but then he has this huge squat i mean

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he's just dropped about six inches there

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and then he reverses it from here into

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impact

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he actually jumps up a little bit and

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extends upwards

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and so the best players in the world are

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actually moving up and down a little bit

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and so it's it's really strange it's

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like well

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how is he doing that well the beauty is

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there there is a simplistic answer to

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this like i said i'm gonna i'm gonna

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make it really

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difficult for you or give you the

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complexity and then i'm gonna reign it

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back in and make things simple

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and so the simple thing would be

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literally just to focus on where you

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contact the ground

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so i got a little video clip here and

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this is a drill i do with all my players

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it's it's more of a feedback exercise

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and and you can do this on the course as

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well so when you're on the course as

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long as it's not a competition

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you can place a t on the ground or

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sometimes i'll get players to just place

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a coin on the ground or marker something

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just to tell you

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where the golf ball was in space before

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you hit it

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and then all you do is you swing back

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hit the shot

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and you can see where your divot started

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it's as simple as that

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and you can see this divot started

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around about here

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so basically pros will start the divot

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anywhere between about half inch or

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quarter of an inch behind and quarter of

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an inch in front something like that or

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half an inch behind half an inch in

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front

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that's the safe zone now if you were to

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start

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to hit a little bit in front of it maybe

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half an inch in front

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further further forwards or half an inch

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farther back from that

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that's where we start to get slight fat

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shots and thin

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shots so we might lose about 5 10 yards

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distance from that

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and then we get into disaster areas so

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anything in this area

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is going to be a bladed shot it's very

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it's actually very rare that someone

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contacts the ground that far forwards

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but certainly you see amateurs all the

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time contact the ground in this area

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here

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you know one and a half inches two

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inches three inches behind

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and so i can almost predict what

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handicap a player is

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based on just looking at that right if a

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player is

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if i looked at 100 shots of a player or

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even 10 shots

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and they're getting 90 percent of their

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shots striking that yellow area

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i would say that guy's probably uh

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either a pro or scratch handicap they're

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going to be low handicap

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if ninety percent of their shots fall

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within the orange area

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or the dirty brown area that's going to

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be probably a single figure handicap

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and then if 90 percent of these shots

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fall in the red area that's going to be

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a much higher handicap or you you know

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say only

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say only 30 percent of their shots fall

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in the orange area

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you're probably talking about 15

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handicaps something like that

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so many golfers will start to hit in the

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in the red area and eventually they

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learn to

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take the shallowest divot ever so

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they're basically getting away with it

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then

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so if you hit the red area and you take

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a real thin divot you can get away with

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it but it's not optimal it's not what

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the pros do

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the pros take pretty chunky divots

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and they just make sure that it's in

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front of the ball like that

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right it starts in that it starts in

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that yellow

21:16

area does that make sense so far yep

21:19

good so basically you're taking all that

21:22

complexity the up and down motion

21:25

of your body the low point motion as

21:28

well so the side to side motion and

21:29

instead of focusing on all of those

21:32

parts that relate to it i would rather

21:36

give the person the single

21:38

goal of striking that line

21:41

where the ball is resting so i'll often

21:43

actually spray

21:44

a white line on the ground with uh dr

21:47

shaw's foot spray or any kind of foot

21:49

spray maybe dry shampoo i'll spray a

21:51

line on the ground

21:52

i'll place golf balls on top and we just

21:55

work on making the divot in the right

21:57

place

21:59

so adam would you say um

22:03

it's better for let's just say most

22:06

golfers

22:07

most amateur golfers to focus on

22:10

achieving the result versus

22:13

worrying about technical aspects

22:17

exactly yes like you don't put a fork

22:19

into your mouth

22:20

thinking of where your arm is where your

22:23

wrist is or what your shoulder angle is

22:25

right you focus on the task the task is

22:28

to put the fork in the mouth

22:30

and the same in golf as well as there

22:32

are lots of examples of this in other

22:34

sports as well they take darts players

22:36

and they ask them to focus on the arm

22:38

movement

22:38

and it completely screws up their

22:40

ability to throw a dart

22:42

whereas when they focus on the task

22:43

getting the dart where they want it to

22:45

um they they get better results with it

22:48

and it's the same with this focus on the

22:50

task the task being to strike that line

22:53

or you know you might give them give

22:55

them a bigger boundary you'd say strike

22:58

anywhere

22:59

between these three lines

23:02

ideally on that middle one strike

23:04

anywhere there and you're golden

23:07

and i even quantify it so the next stage

23:10

for people is not just to do the task

23:11

but to actually make a game out of it i

23:13

would

23:14

you know play play a game where we we

23:17

write down

23:18

how far behind the ball they hit each

23:21

time so say they make one swing and they

23:23

hit an

23:23

inch behind i would say okay you scored

23:26

one

23:27

then the next one they hit two inches

23:29

behind i'll say okay you scored two on

23:30

that one

23:32

then the next one they hit the line i'd

23:33

say okay you scored zero on that

23:36

so after 10 shots we get a score

23:39

and then we can get an average and i've

23:40

had players who when they first

23:42

start they're hitting on average two

23:45

inches behind the ball

23:47

and they're a 15 20 handicap and then i

23:50

get them to practice that drill

23:52

over and over and over and after a month

23:54

all of a sudden they're they're only

23:55

an inch behind on average and now

23:58

they're in single figures

24:00

and that's all they've done now there

24:02

are obviously other things that we can

24:03

do to speed this up

24:05

but focusing on the task is huge and i

24:08

think most golfers get caught in the

24:10

trap of focusing on the method

24:12

not the task so they're busy

24:15

with that yeah you actually i'll raise

24:18

my own hand on

24:20

i'm not exactly so if i

24:24

if i just took a random sample of

24:25

golfers on the on the t

24:27

and asked them what their swing thoughts

24:28

were they would 90 of them if not 99

24:31

would

24:32

say i'm thinking of left arm or shoulder

24:34

movement or weight shift

24:36

they're thinking on the method about the

24:38

method rather than the task of what

24:40

they're trying to achieve

24:42

and like i said if you just stuck to

24:44

this task

24:45

basically you're giving your brain one

24:47

goal

24:48

hit the ground in the right place and

24:50

your brain will

24:52

figure out it takes all of the moving

24:55

pieces that contribute to it and it

24:57

figures out how to make them work

24:59

together

25:01

whereas when you focus on one piece of

25:03

the movement such as weight shift

25:06

your brain will figure out how to get

25:07

better at weight shift but all the other

25:09

pieces

25:10

won't fall into line and this has been

25:12

shown in the science and the mode of

25:14

learning science this is why these are

25:16

not popular i got you you know what

25:19

that was you were talking kind of like

25:21

about a light bulb moment

25:23

that's kind of a light bulb moment uh

25:26

that i just had there so if you're

25:29

focusing on

25:31

two or three things let's just say you

25:34

might get better at those two or three

25:35

things but

25:36

back to the beginning of your

25:37

presentation there's

25:39

almost infinite amount of things that

25:42

are happening with your body moving

25:44

exactly and essentially you lose

25:48

kind of what those are you can't

25:50

necessarily control all those things and

25:52

think about these main three things and

25:54

then you lose that

25:55

and then ultimately that impacts

25:58

the the result anyways exactly i mean

26:01

the simplest analogy

26:03

is the studies on throwing a ball into a

26:05

bucket

26:06

if a player is just focusing on throwing

26:08

the ball into the bucket

26:10

they will do it more often and they'll

26:12

actually be able to do it in different

26:13

ways they like they could

26:15

throw it higher throw a little lower

26:16

throw harder throw it softer

26:18

doesn't matter they'll get the ball into

26:20

the bucket more often whereas when you

26:22

ask those same people to focus on their

26:23

wrist motion

26:25

and try to make that more consistent the

26:27

wrist motion might

26:28

might become more consistent but their

26:30

outcomes get less consistent it's really

26:33

uh is it's a counterintuitive thing

26:37

but it makes sense at least in terms of

26:39

throwing a ball into a bucket i'm sure

26:40

many people can connect to that but

26:43

either way there's there's about 18

26:44

years of research on this now the motor

26:46

learning science that show that task

26:49

based focuses like this as long as the

26:52

feedback is very very clear

26:55

they will get better at it so practicing

26:57

with good feedback and a clear

26:59

understanding of what the task is

27:01

they will get better at it and if you

27:03

turn it into a game

27:04

you get better quicker so if you do a 10

27:07

ball test and you get your average

27:09

and you repeat that every single time

27:11

you practice for a month

27:12

you will see that average come down and

27:14

as a result that those

27:16

scores will come down as well because

27:17

they have to if you strike the ground

27:19

better you're going to be a better

27:20

golfer it's as simple as that

27:22

well and it's you know like just from a

27:26

practical like standpoint like how many

27:29

times do you see

27:30

like one of your buddies or maybe even

27:33

if it's you

27:34

you hit a fat shot then you're all mad

27:37

and then it just ruins that hole and it

27:38

becomes a blow up hole anyways you know

27:41

well yes interesting someone will hit a

27:43

bad shot and then they start thinking

27:45

about their swing and then it's a

27:46

downward spiral

27:48

right yeah or you know if you've ever

27:50

been on the first tee and someone says

27:51

oh i like what you do with your swing

27:53

you look

27:53

good in the top of your back swing all

27:55

the sudden he's inside your head

27:57

and you're thinking about the top of

27:58

your backswing and you screw up for the

27:59

rest of the round

28:00

i'm gonna start using that um

28:03

and you know what the difference between

28:05

your best shots and your worst shots if

28:07

i go back to that arc depth

28:09

it's very common that all you've done if

28:12

this is a perfect swing here

28:14

well look if you drop if you were to

28:18

drop

28:18

just what's that an eighth of an inch

28:21

all sudden you

28:22

hit an inch and a half behind it and

28:24

that's a fat shot effectively

28:25

and you've dropped an eighth of an inch

28:27

that could have come from anywhere some

28:29

knee flex

28:30

some head drops some scapula retraction

28:33

some left arm flex a later an earlier

28:35

release

28:36

could have come from anywhere you'd be

28:38

you'd drive yourself nuts trying to find

28:40

which one it was

28:42

but instead of doing that just give your

28:44

brain the goal say okay i went a little

28:46

too deep into that and we'll talk about

28:48

this in a moment how to actually change

28:49

those

28:50

and i use a lot of psychological things

28:52

as you know basically this drill here

28:56

is a psychological thing you're just

28:58

you're just telling your brain what you

28:59

want to do

29:00

using good feedback and adjusting from

29:02

there

29:03

and it's the same with um face strike so

29:06

face strike you could have the heel

29:08

side which is this side here you have

29:10

the toe side which is the far

29:12

side and i've split it into thirds here

29:15

so actually one of the games i play with

29:17

people is to get them to intentionally

29:20

hit the toe and the heel

29:23

and the center which is really

29:25

counterintuitive when people first hear

29:27

that they go

29:28

what are you going on about you must be

29:29

mad you can't be a teacher

29:31

but i've actually got studies on this

29:33

backing up

29:34

that if if i ask a group of golfers to

29:37

hit

29:37

all all thirds of those

29:41

intentionally versus a group who

29:44

only hits the center intentionally

29:48

when we go to test the ones who did all

29:51

three are actually better at hitting the

29:53

center really counter-intuitive

29:56

so it's that old mantra of perfect

29:59

practice makes perfect

30:00

is absolute rubbish the most british

30:03

phrase i'll say here

30:06

it's not it's just not true uh there's a

30:08

there's a whole science called

30:09

differential learning where you can

30:11

practice

30:12

doing the wrong thing and as long as

30:14

it's intentional

30:16

you can learn quicker so another version

30:19

of this is trying to present the face

30:20

more open or closed at will and

30:22

intentionally hitting hooks and slices

30:24

that actually helps you when it comes to

30:27

hitting a straight shot

30:28

because if you know what right feels

30:30

like and you know what left feels like

30:33

a scented shot is just something in

30:35

between there it's just calibrating that

30:37

feeling

30:38

and it's really real quick adam there's

30:40

a couple questions here

30:41

uh yeah sure uh from the two john's here

30:45

so uh one of them was asking what about

30:48

a mental game like don't miss

30:50

right or don't hit it hit into the water

30:53

um or instead we should maybe think

30:57

hit a toe shot or count to 10 as you

31:00

swing

31:01

or what like what are some things maybe

31:02

i guess that that they can do

31:05

uh while they're playing oh man i mean

31:08

you could

31:08

do a whole presentation on that so say

31:10

you say you're the type of person who

31:12

gets distracted or fearful

31:14

there's loads of um ways around that i

31:17

mean you could just place your focus on

31:19

something that's relevant

31:20

right rather than don't do x

31:24

you could focus on something you

31:25

actually control which is

31:27

let's focus on hitting this spot on the

31:29

ground you know for place

31:30

place places spot where the golf ball is

31:32

let's focus on hitting that spot

31:34

or let's focus on which part of the face

31:37

i'm hitting

31:38

so i'll basically just play a game of do

31:41

the opposite of what my pattern is so

31:43

you know the other day i woke up and i

31:45

was accidentally hitting out the toe

31:47

no biggie i just try and hit out of this

31:50

third and it balances it it neutralizes

31:52

it and it gives me a focus then so i'm

31:54

not worried about don't do this with the

31:56

ball or that with the result

31:57

i'm just focusing on what i can control

31:59

which is my intention

32:01

um there are more esoteric ways as well

32:04

like i do have a counting routine i have

32:07

a blog on that where i get players to

32:08

walk into their shots and they're

32:10

counting

32:11

and what it does is it basically

32:13

distracts your conscious mind

32:15

um away from irrelevant thoughts and

32:18

places it

32:19

on a it places on something that's

32:21

called a neutral focus and what happens

32:24

for players if i did that with a hundred

32:25

golfers

32:26

get them to focus on breathing or

32:28

counting what happens is their patterns

32:30

become more consistent

32:32

now not necessarily better right

32:35

ashankar might become more consistently

32:36

shanking it

32:37

which is not a good thing but if you're

32:39

a good player and you have relatively

32:41

good patterns

32:42

you will more likely produce those

32:44

patterns so that's good when you have a

32:46

player who's good but they crumble under

32:48

pressure

32:49

right because they self-sabotage right

32:52

i'm a good example of that as well i

32:53

don't deal with pressure very

32:55

very well i'm an introvert so i do a

32:57

counting routine when i feel like i'm

32:59

under pressure

33:00

but that might not necessarily help a

33:02

shankar you know shank is someone

33:03

hitting out of this part of the

33:05

club what might help the shanker is to

33:07

focus more on hitting

33:09

the toe third of the club because that

33:10

would neutralize their pattern

33:13

right so yeah well i was gonna

33:17

uh the other john asked a question um

33:20

about uh how could they how could he you

33:23

know practice this in the winter on a

33:25

map

33:26

i will yeah i will show you that in a

33:28

moment

33:30

but there's there are drills you can do

33:31

so one of the drills you know turning

33:33

this into a psychological thing

33:36

um you can do this with irons as well as

33:38

driver but i've got a can of dr

33:40

scholz or i think this is a cvs brand

33:43

foot spray because i'm cheap

33:44

um they're about three dollars a can or

33:46

something and you just do a really light

33:49

spray

33:50

on the face i i did a little bit more i

33:52

caked it on a bit more just so you can

33:54

see it

33:55

within a couple of seconds it dries into

33:57

a white powder

33:58

and basically you make your swing

34:03

and strike the ball and it tells you

34:06

where you struck on the face

34:08

so it's great feedback and then as an

34:11

addition to that if that's all you did

34:13

you would improve that if that's all you

34:15

did is just spray the face and hit balls

34:17

and every time you hit a ball have a

34:19

look down and see

34:20

where you struck you would get better

34:22

over time

34:23

but if you want to speed it up

34:26

do an exercise where you hit 10 balls

34:28

trying to hit the toe

34:30

portion of the clip then do another 10

34:33

shots trying to hit the heel of the club

34:36

and then do your 10 shots trying to hit

34:38

the center

34:39

and you will find you will be better at

34:41

it

34:42

and whichever one you struggle with

34:44

everybody will struggle with one of

34:46

those

34:47

if you struggle with the yellow area

34:49

that's what you need to practice more

34:52

it's really simple and so obviously you

34:55

don't want to do this on the course

34:56

because you don't want to be hitting the

34:58

incorrect parts of the

34:59

face on the course but you can do this

35:00

on the range or even if you're at home

35:03

and you can't get to a range at the

35:04

moment

35:05

you can do this without a ball and it

35:08

still leaves the mark of the t

35:10

you'll you'll see a little dot here or i

35:12

should put in a different color a little

35:14

dot here

35:14

which represents the t or you could use

35:17

little coke bottle caps and that

35:19

mushes against the face a little better

35:22

or you could use a foam ball as well

35:24

so there are ways of transferring this

35:26

to indoor practice and so it's a great

35:28

drill if you did this over winter just

35:30

five minutes a day

35:32

you would come out a better golfer than

35:34

you left definitely

35:36

right also yeah so there's the

35:40

the tea and divot drill that's a little

35:42

bit harder to do indoors but i'll show

35:44

you a way of doing it now

35:46

um there's the face spray drill

35:49

that you can use with irons as well and

35:52

if you want i i've just partnered with a

35:55

training aid

35:56

guy who invented this he actually

35:57

contacted me because because i'm the

35:59

strike

35:59

guy in the golf industry and so he

36:02

contacted me saying i love what you do

36:05

i think your product would be a good fit

36:06

so this is kind of a plug for his stuff

36:08

but i love it

36:09

this basically this is a board with

36:13

little sequins on it and as you swing

36:16

let me play it through full speed as you

36:19

swing it leaves a mark

36:21

it tells you where you've hit so you can

36:23

see that's in the orange area right

36:25

where i put earlier that's

36:26

slightly ahead of the golf ball so a

36:29

slight thin

36:30

contact and then we have

36:36

i don't know what this one is we'll see

36:37

in a moment

36:39

all right that is too close to your feet

36:41

so can you see how the divot is

36:43

more on this line here right there's too

36:46

close to your feet so that relates to a

36:48

toe contact which i'll go through in a

36:49

moment

36:50

i'll explain that that concept and this

36:52

one

36:53

was behind the ball i hit too early kind

36:56

of in the orange maybe red zone there so

36:58

that would be a fat

36:59

contact and so yeah it's just

37:03

and that's a perfect contact then so

37:04

this is this is what you ideally want to

37:06

do that's a pro contact

37:08

where you're striking that yellow spot

37:09

where the ball was

37:11

resting initially so this is a great way

37:14

you can go to divotboard.com if you want

37:17

that

37:18

if you want to have a look at that or

37:19

type adam younggolf.com forward slash

37:22

divot board

37:23

and uh there's i've got an article

37:25

showing that but that's

37:26

a great way of practicing that in winter

37:30

or even summer i mean if you're on the

37:31

range mats right right

37:33

range mat you will get away if you hit

37:35

two inches behind your arrangement

37:37

you'll get away with it

37:38

i hate it lots of people yeah exactly

37:40

lots of people practice on range mats

37:42

and they walk off going

37:43

oh i feel good about the day then they

37:45

heard that they hit their first shot on

37:47

the turf

37:47

and they fat it chunks about 10 yards

37:49

and they think why can't i transfer my

37:51

game from the range to the course right

37:53

it could be you're just getting

37:54

incorrect feedback if you've got this

37:56

device

37:57

all right a fat shot might still fly off

37:59

okay but you'll know it because you can

38:01

see it now it won't let you

38:02

cheat right um it is quite expensive to

38:06

do a board it's about 99 dollars i do

38:08

have an offer on it at the moment which

38:09

includes my educational program so

38:12

if you're thinking about getting it get

38:13

it within this month because there's uh

38:15

extras but

38:16

a cheaper version of this uh would be

38:20

let me have a look here the sand drill

38:22

so you can get into a bunker and just

38:24

draw a line

38:25

on the in it and make sure the stands

38:27

nice and flat i actually rake it with

38:28

the back of the rake

38:29

to make sure it's flat and then just

38:32

make your swing

38:34

and what you'll what you'll see is you

38:36

can see

38:37

two things basically or three things

38:40

number one you can see

38:41

in yellow the yellow dot here is where i

38:44

first contacted the ground

38:45

so a little bit behind but nothing too

38:47

bad you can also see the arc

38:50

depth because the depth of the divot

38:52

that you go in

38:53

tells you a story and you can also see

38:55

the low point of the swing because the

38:57

middle of the divot

38:58

represents the lowest point you swing in

39:01

sand

39:02

so that's that gives you all the

39:03

information i mean obviously the most

39:05

important part of that information is

39:06

where you first contacted

39:08

the ground but you you know it's nice to

39:11

know my divot is three inches in front

39:13

which is pretty pro

39:14

pro like so it gives you a lot of

39:17

information

39:17

it's just it's just really good to to

39:21

see all that because i can use that with

39:23

players and we can calibrate everything

39:25

i can make them go in a little deeper a

39:26

little shallower

39:28

i can shove their low point further

39:29

forwards or back

39:31

and then obviously we can look at that

39:33

ground contact so that's the cheap

39:35

version of it

39:37

now yeah in terms of

39:41

changing these things we've talked about

39:44

feedback devices

39:45

this is a bit blurry unfortunately but

39:47

you'll get the point here

39:50

now imagine you are looking down at the

39:53

ground

39:54

and this white circle is a bit blurry

39:56

but this is the this is the golf ball

39:58

basically

39:59

so this circle here is the golf ball

40:01

you're looking at the ground

40:03

now is if i asked a hundred golfers to

40:06

aim for this

40:07

little yellow sorry little red spot

40:10

instead

40:11

of the golf ball and try to hit that

40:13

little red spot

40:15

what would happen is this strike would

40:17

move a little bit more towards the toe

40:20

and if i ask him to aim for this bigger

40:23

red spot it would move even more towards

40:25

the toe

40:27

and then if i asked them to aim for this

40:29

really big red spot they would probably

40:31

toe shank it

40:33

or definitely move more towards the toe

40:35

and the reverse is true if i ask them to

40:37

aim for the yellow spots

40:38

the strike would get more progressively

40:40

more towards the heel of the club

40:43

so this is a kind of the basic way that

40:45

i train

40:46

golfers to be able to hit different

40:48

parts of the face

40:50

and we first start with a little patting

40:53

swings until they've got control over it

40:55

and then we build up and what i

40:59

have is i i have players who train this

41:02

to the point

41:03

where they can move the strike around

41:05

the face

41:06

at will in three millimeter increments

41:10

because i have a gc quad so i can

41:11

quantify it in millimeters

41:14

so i can ask some of my players i could

41:15

say can you hit it three millimeters

41:17

towards the toe for me

41:18

and they'll get it pretty close i'll say

41:21

can you hit it six millimeters towards

41:22

the toe they'll get it pretty close

41:24

i can give them loads of different

41:26

numbers and they can feel it because

41:27

they've trained these skills

41:30

and now you might think well why on

41:31

earth would you want to hit it on

41:33

different parts of the face

41:35

well here's why because when it comes

41:37

back to trying to hit that center of the

41:39

face

41:41

your ability to move it back and forth

41:43

at will helps you

41:45

so those guys who are able to move it at

41:47

three millimeter increments when i ask

41:49

them to hit the center now

41:50

it is not a problem in fact i have

41:53

quantifiable data showing

41:56

that the players who practice those

41:58

skills of moving it around the face

41:59

they get better at hitting the center

42:02

you know they might only hit say they

42:04

hit 80 out of 100 on the center

42:06

pre-test after doing these skill drills

42:10

they might hit 90 or 95 out of the

42:12

center

42:13

right it's really counterintuitive

42:15

training but it's why i'm different

42:17

it's why my book was a bestseller

42:19

because loads of people read it and they

42:20

went

42:21

oh wow i didn't even think of this stuff

42:23

this is really strange but

42:24

let's go out and try it and oh my god it

42:26

works let's give the book a good review

42:28

so i appreciate all those good reviews

42:30

by the way

42:31

um so yeah doing it doing that just you

42:34

know shifting side to side mentally

42:37

if someone is hitting fat shots i might

42:40

tell them to hit

42:41

you know this orange one or a bigger

42:44

orange one

42:45

or an even bigger orange one so i will

42:48

sometimes i'll take the ball away and we

42:49

just explore

42:50

can you hit three inches in front of it

42:52

can you hit two inches in front of it

42:54

can you hit two inches behind the ball

42:56

intentionally

42:57

and initially people are awful at it

42:59

they can't get

43:00

anywhere near where they try to you know

43:03

they might try to hit the ball

43:05

and they end up hitting back here but

43:08

you know what

43:09

when i get people to explore heading too

43:12

far in front and too far behind

43:14

all of a sudden their ability to hit

43:16

their desired spot

43:18

where the ball is is resting improves

43:22

so and you can even work on this in the

43:24

up and down motion as well so if you

43:26

imagine you're an ant

43:27

now again it's a bit blurry but you're

43:29

an ant and this green line here is

43:32

actually a blade of grass

43:33

i've just taken all the other blades of

43:35

grass away so you're just looking at one

43:36

blade of grass

43:38

i could ask players to can you hit the

43:41

top of the blade of grass

43:42

that biggest blue spot there and then i

43:45

say can you go a little deeper and just

43:47

hit

43:47

you know somewhere around here now can

43:49

you hit the middle of the blade of grass

43:52

now can you hit the base of the blade of

43:54

grass can you take a little bit of turf

43:57

can you take a big amount of turf and

44:00

what i find is players are actually

44:02

really good at that even complete

44:04

beginners can control

44:06

their up and down motion again not by

44:09

thinking about how to do it

44:11

they're not thinking of flexing the lead

44:13

arm straightening the legs or

44:15

scapular retraction protraction they're

44:17

not thinking about that

44:18

they're just telling their brain which

44:20

part of the grass they want to hit

44:22

and they're adjusting it up and down

44:24

just a game of high or lower

44:26

it's all it is and players if they do

44:29

that game enough they become

44:30

very very good at it and that helps

44:34

when it comes to this skill which is the

44:37

the up and down motion that i talked

44:39

about right if so if i have a player who

44:42

is

44:42

fatting it they you know they're going

44:44

in a bit too deep and they're hitting

44:46

three inches behind

44:47

i might tell them can you feel as if you

44:50

nip the

44:51

top of the blades of grass for me and

44:53

all sudden boop

44:54

the arc goes up and the ground contact

44:57

gets better

44:58

so a lesson with me can often look

45:00

stupidly simple

45:02

yeah someone could be paying me 200

45:04

bucks an hour

45:05

uh it's almost embarrassing me for t for

45:07

me to take that money but

45:09

you know people the market pays it and

45:12

they pay me 200 bucks an hour for me to

45:13

say can you just brush the grass or feel

45:15

like you brush the grass

45:16

but you know what their results get

45:18

better and they walk off happy

45:20

they're like you know what i've tried

45:21

everything i've been reading all the

45:23

magazines i've been doing this and that

45:24

with my body and nothing's fixed it

45:26

and now all i'm thinking of is just

45:28

brushing the top of the grass and it's

45:29

better

45:30

like yep and if you understand what

45:32

you're doing and if you learn how you

45:34

know hitting different parts of the

45:35

blade of grass affects your outcome and

45:36

your ground strike

45:38

you can effectively coach yourself so

45:40

okay it's an expensive lesson but now

45:42

you can coach yourself for life so long

45:44

time

45:44

he's really cheap and if you don't want

45:46

to pay 200 bucks an hour i have online

45:48

programs that are very cheap so

45:50

you can get all of this information for

45:52

much cheaper

45:54

um and and so like for that drill that

45:56

you were just talking about that would

45:58

probably just put a t

45:59

in the ground and practice like hitting

46:01

the t

46:03

exactly yeah you could um in the if

46:05

you're indoors

46:06

you're stuck indoors something i do is i

46:08

get an old bit of carpet

46:10

it's tiny square of carpet and i place

46:12

guitar picks on top of it

46:14

and the goal is to clip the guitar pick

46:16

away

46:18

without moving the carpet too much wow

46:21

so that basically automatically gives

46:23

your brain the task

46:24

i've got to control my height here and

46:27

if you go

46:28

too high even by a couple of millimeters

46:30

you're not going to move the guitar pick

46:32

and if you go too deep you're going to

46:34

send the carpet flying out

46:36

so over time after practicing this

46:38

obviously it's really difficult at first

46:40

that drill

46:41

but after time after doing it you get

46:43

better at it you can feel it

46:46

and you can you know if you can do that

46:48

task of hitting a guitar pick without

46:50

sending the carpet out there

46:52

you will never fat or thin it again it's

46:54

that simple wow and if you want a

46:56

simpler version of that something that's

46:58

easy and not as frustrating just start

47:00

with a

47:01

bottle cap a coat bottle cap on top of

47:04

the carpet

47:05

same task clip the bottle cap out

47:07

without moving the carpet

47:09

once it gets too easy for you shift to

47:11

something thinner

47:12

um like a guitar pick or something in

47:15

between those

47:17

so yeah that's a again a simple drill

47:19

just deals with intention

47:21

it deals with the one thought process

47:23

that allows your brain to

47:25

figure out all the variables

47:28

and yeah i think uh i think that's

47:32

pretty much my presentation so

47:35

i will go back to being you

47:39

yep turn off my screen share

47:46

oh yeah i mean i wanted to real quick

47:49

and

47:49

uh we're gonna open it up for q and a's

47:51

guys here

47:52

in in one second um pierre asked a

47:56

question earlier i didn't get a chance

47:57

to

47:58

to ask that but um he was asking if it's

48:01

is it easier to be a sweeper versus a

48:04

digger

48:05

for the best shot result but it just

48:07

sounds like you're saying

48:08

don't even focus on those things just

48:10

focus on

48:11

kind of hitting good hitting like in

48:14

front of the ball or

48:15

or you know for good contact face

48:17

contact

48:18

yeah contacting that so hold on a second

48:24

so this was the the device the divot

48:26

board here

48:27

so yeah contacting that the yellow spot

48:31

there just contacting that

48:32

whether you dig in deep basically and

48:35

hit it hard

48:36

or whether you just lightly touch that

48:39

yellow spot

48:40

is less relevant in fact both can work i

48:43

like players to be

48:44

picky if they're if they're okay with

48:46

that they can you know pick it off

48:48

that turf if i have a higher speed

48:51

player

48:51

i will tell them hit this yellow spot

48:55

but take a divot after it so go in a bit

48:57

deeper basically try and thump that

48:59

yellow spot

49:00

because what that does is it gets it

49:02

tends to get more forward shaft lean and

49:04

so that player can bring their flight

49:06

down

49:07

and if they're a lower speed player then

49:09

i say just bounce the club on that

49:10

yellow spot basically

49:12

right and and i know we probably

49:16

um we didn't necessarily target it off

49:19

but i think a lot of this whole

49:20

presentation and

49:21

and feel free if you want to add here

49:23

something adam

49:24

uh about the skill versus technique this

49:27

is kind of what we're talking

49:28

essentially is you're

49:29

building skills by doing these simple

49:31

drills

49:32

versus getting too uh focused on

49:35

positions and

49:36

and technique yeah so i would define

49:39

technique as the method

49:41

employed to achieve a task

49:44

so you know well how do you hit that

49:48

yellow spot

49:48

well i could give you a million

49:50

combinations of how to hit it and you

49:52

can only look you can look at

49:53

the tour players to see all the

49:55

different ways that they achieve that

49:58

you know some players have more weight

49:59

shift and and less lag some players a

50:02

little bit more on the back foot and use

50:04

more like

50:04

i mean i could go down loads of

50:06

different routes with that most tour

50:07

players end up looking similar

50:09

because they're using a model that's

50:11

based on doing it at

50:12

speed as well so lots of people that

50:15

lots of things that people lord over you

50:17

know oh look a huge shoulder turn

50:20

that's kind of just relevant to speed

50:22

creation it's not really relevant to

50:24

whether you hit the ground in the right

50:25

place

50:26

right so um yeah the technique is the

50:30

method employed

50:32

but the skill is the task

50:35

right how good at you at hitting that

50:37

yellow spot right

50:38

because i'm very skilled i can actually

50:41

hit that yellow spot in a million

50:42

different ways

50:43

i can do it and look pretty stock like a

50:46

pro

50:47

or i could do it on my back foot

50:48

swinging more left i could do it more

50:50

forward swing it more right

50:51

i could grip the club like this and hit

50:53

the yellow spot

50:54

and you know what as stupid as that grip

50:56

is that ball flies off

50:58

just as if it would with any other swing

51:01

and that's often

51:02

something i use to show people the

51:04

difference between technique and skill i

51:06

say to people

51:07

you know what is a must thing in the

51:09

golf swing

51:10

and they say oh well you you absolutely

51:13

must have a good grip

51:14

and so i just grip it like an idiot and

51:16

just flash shots over and over down

51:18

there and i say all right

51:19

so last one that's out of the window

51:21

give me another must and they say oh

51:23

well

51:24

you have to follow through and then i

51:27

basically i do what i call my old man

51:29

swing which is like

51:31

right right like that and still i just

51:33

pummel these balls down there all right

51:35

i might lose 10

51:36

yards or so but right these balls down

51:38

there and

51:39

at the end of about 20 minutes of saying

51:41

all these musts

51:42

they go you know what i haven't got a

51:45

clue anymore my

51:46

world has been shattered tell us what is

51:48

a must and i say well number

51:50

one you must hit this yellow spot regard

51:53

no matter how you do it whether you want

51:54

to do it like a tall player

51:56

or whether you want to do it like an

51:57

octopus falling out a tree ball doesn't

51:59

care

52:01

jim furyk ball doesn't care just hit

52:03

this spot

52:04

if you do that you basically take care

52:06

of ground contact and face contact which

52:08

are two of the most important

52:10

fundamentals

52:11

so you're going back to that board again

52:15

if you if you hit

52:18

the right spot you're taking care of

52:22

ground contact and face contact because

52:24

if you're if you hit too much on this

52:26

yellow line

52:27

that's basically like a heel contact and

52:29

too much on this yellow line is like a

52:31

toe contact

52:33

i believe i i'm doing things backwards

52:35

here because the camera is all backwards

52:37

but

52:37

basically hitting the ground in

52:38

different places affects face contact as

52:41

well so i can give a person that one

52:43

goal of hit this spot

52:45

and if they've got good quality feedback

52:47

like that divot board or

52:49

some other feedback like the spray and

52:51

the line on the ground

52:53

they'll get better at it and they they

52:55

won't have to know

52:56

exactly how to do it right um greg was

53:00

asking

53:01

um a drill to stop the

53:05

the s word with the wedges

53:08

you know what the drill that i i have

53:10

such a good success rate with shankers

53:13

because i've had so many people come to

53:16

me

53:16

who are on the edge of quitting they say

53:20

i've just spent a thousand dollars with

53:21

lessons and i still shank it i say so

53:24

what have you been working on

53:25

they go well one guy told me i need to

53:27

turn my shoulders the others trying to

53:29

fix my over-the-top move and i say well

53:31

okay that's all

53:32

relevant it might be nice stuff to fix

53:35

but just entertain me for a moment and i

53:37

say i spray the club face

53:40

and i say right i want you to try with a

53:42

putting swing

53:43

and hit the toe of the club and i just

53:46

let them hit 10 shots and then we have a

53:48

look

53:48

sometimes they're on the toe sometimes

53:50

they're not

53:51

if they're not i give them that that

53:54

spot drill remember where

53:55

i tell them to look at different spots

53:57

and i tell them to look at the yellow

53:58

spots which are closer to their feet

54:00

and i say right try again now and just

54:02

do a little chipping swing a little

54:03

putting swing

54:05

trying to hit that yellow spot and it

54:06

shifts towards the toe

54:09

once they can get to about a 9 out of 10

54:11

success rate

54:13

then i say all right now do it with a

54:15

pitching swing

54:16

and then again once they can hit the tow

54:18

half of the club

54:20

9 out of 10 times we go to a full swing

54:23

and you know sometimes they go well adam

54:26

i still struggle to hit the toe

54:28

look i only hit six out of ten on the

54:30

toe

54:31

and i say yeah how many shank shots have

54:33

you hit in the last hour and they go

54:35

ah i haven't shanked it in the last

54:37

hour i go yeah

54:38

exactly the intention of doing the

54:42

opposite of your fault

54:44

neutralizes your pattern and so i say

54:47

right i want you to go off now

54:49

and for five minutes minimum every

54:52

single day i want you to practice that

54:53

drill not hitting the center

54:55

i want you to practice hitting the toe

54:58

and you know what and a week later they

54:59

come back and they say

55:01

i love golf i haven't shanked this since

55:04

or

55:04

maybe oh i i i had a brain fart on the

55:07

13th tee and i shanked one but i went

55:09

straight back to your drill

55:11

didn't shank it for the rest of the

55:12

round and you know what a year later

55:14

they come back

55:15

i've had people sometimes where i'm like

55:17

where is that person i thought that

55:19

was a good lesson

55:20

and then i contact them and they say are

55:21

you okay and they're like yeah

55:23

i haven't needed to come back i'm like

55:25

well this is a this is a crappy

55:26

business model

55:28

um but luckily i make make sales on the

55:31

back end from big video products and

55:33

stuff like that but yeah my

55:34

my sales model oh my sorry my business

55:37

model is not very good because i make

55:38

players better and able to self coach to

55:40

the point they don't want to come back

55:41

they don't need to come back

55:43

can his book his book is called the

55:45

practice manual

55:46

the ultimate golfer's guide ultimate

55:49

guide for golfers yeah anything like

55:51

that will go in yes

55:52

yeah ultimate ball for golf and it is a

55:56

thick thick manual it's like 400 pages

56:00

long we go through a lot of what we talk

56:01

about in here

56:03

um and then i have if you if you're more

56:05

interested in videos i have videos that

56:08

have those visuals that we see there's

56:11

like three hours of condemn basically

56:12

and i show you more drills or ways of

56:14

developing these things

56:16

i do talk about the technical aspects as

56:18

well

56:19

but it's more for it's more for

56:22

intellectual stimulation than anything

56:24

because again i show you all the the

56:26

complexity that's involved mechanically

56:28

and i just say you know these drills

56:30

these simple drills are basically the

56:32

way to go

56:33

and steve said that he loves your nail

56:36

drill to hit a slight draw instead of a

56:38

slice

56:39

so he's he comes over the top trying to

56:41

hit the nail even when

56:43

uh he imagines it on the inside of the

56:45

ball obviously

56:47

obviously i'd be a terrible carpenter

56:49

[Laughter]

56:51

i think a lot with a lot of that it's

56:53

down to process

56:54

and i would get players to so the nail

56:56

drill for people listening is you

56:58

basically you've got the ball

57:00

and you've got a nail driven through it

57:01

i actually you know hammered a nail

57:03

through a golf ball

57:04

and i just angle it more to the right or

57:06

to the left so someone tends to swing to

57:08

the left

57:09

they're over the top i will angle that

57:11

nail more to the right

57:12

and just say how would you hammer that

57:14

nail and then people are tapping into

57:17

instinct

57:18

and as long as the process is good you

57:21

see immediate results with that so i

57:23

start out with little patting swings

57:25

then build it up to chipping swings then

57:27

full swings if you go straight into a

57:29

full speed swing you might revert back

57:31

to the old

57:32

old way but as long as that process is

57:35

is in place

57:36

and there's no end to how much you you

57:38

can angle that nail to the right i had a

57:40

player the other day who was struggling

57:41

you know we were angling it five

57:43

ten degrees to the right and he still

57:45

was coming over the top of it

57:47

it was better but not where we wanted it

57:50

so i just went extreme i just angled

57:52

that nail like almost 90 degrees to the

57:54

right and i said how would you hammer

57:55

that

57:56

and he did his swing and he said oh my

57:58

god that felt horrible

58:00

right and i played the video back

58:02

because i had my iphone i played the

58:04

video back to him and i said

58:05

that looks like a tour player it feels

58:08

horrible to you but it looks like a tour

58:11

player right now and that

58:12

that just lit the trackman up it says

58:14

zero for path

58:16

so sometimes feel is not real and we

58:18

have to exaggerate things initially

58:20

as many people trying here if they try

58:22

the first time they try and move it

58:24

towards the toe or the heel

58:26

it won't budge i can guarantee you that

58:29

but like i said start with chip swings

58:30

or pad swings at first

58:32

go extreme instead of thinking hit a

58:35

little bit off the toe try and toe shank

58:37

it

58:37

and you'll see it doesn't move as much

58:39

as as you think it would

58:41

and and then over time you basically

58:43

grease the wheel i call it and you

58:44

you improve your ability to move it like

58:47

the first time i tried i couldn't move

58:49

it but now years later

58:50

i can actually make a back swing have

58:53

someone call out in the middle of my

58:54

backswing toe or heel and i can change

58:56

it

58:57

now you obviously don't need to get it

58:59

to that stage that's not

59:00

it's not really functional to have it to

59:02

that ability i just do it to kind of

59:04

partly show off and partly show that

59:06

this is what this is what is can happen

59:09

if you

59:10

if you practice these things enough not

59:11

only can you move it at will

59:13

you can change it mid-swing potentially

59:16

that's awesome

59:17

uh any any final questions guys it's

59:20

almost uh

59:21

been an hour here so i want to be uh

59:24

appreciative of everyone's time

59:28

i think um for me man this was this was

59:32

this was uh this was awesome i think

59:34

we've seen people in the comments saying

59:36

how they think about

59:36

uh roy was mentioning how you know he's

59:39

thinking about impact differently

59:41

i think a lot of people um even if

59:45

they might even know about skill versus

59:47

technique i think

59:49

we often need reminders it's funny

59:52

because

59:54

when i watch like some videos where

59:56

they're talking to pros

59:58

and they're asking them stuff it's funny

60:00

like some of them will just be like i

60:02

pick out like

60:03

a leaf on a tree and i'm aiming for that

60:06

and that's all i'm thinking about

60:08

you know it's like there is no

60:11

like all these different things that are

60:14

that are going on in their heads they're

60:15

thinking about

60:16

a result a task as you said

60:19

and not worried about positions

60:23

you can get two types i mean you could i

60:25

would say 90

60:26

of tall players fall into the i'm doing

60:29

it but i haven't got a clue how i'm

60:31

doing it

60:32

just like we are with walking right the

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act of walking is incredibly complex if

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you're to try and explain the mechanics

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of walking do you land on your heel do

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you land on your toe

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when'd you bend your leg when did you

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bend your your ankle we don't know

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but we're all experts at walking and

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that's what pros are

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um you do have the guys like bryson de

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chambeau they might be able to tell you

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about forces and talks and things but

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that's quite rare to have that

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and in fact um many pros in in an

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attempt

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to get better at the game of golf they

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go down this mechanical road and they

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actually fall

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off they get worse there are more

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stories of that

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than there are say nick faldo esque

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stories of rebuilding your swing and

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going on the wing in six majors

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so there are both sides of the spectrum

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definitely

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but i would say i would even say don't

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see this as an

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either or right don't see it as skill or

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technique oh i can only work on one no

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you can work on both

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right you could work on how pretty your

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swing is if you want

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but at the end of the day you could have

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the prettiest swing in the world and if

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you're not striking that yellow spot on

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the ground it is not going

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to work i guarantee you in fact i posted

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a video of rory mcilroy the other day

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he it was a video where he topped the

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ball

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and every single part of his swing

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looked brilliant he had a tour level

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grip

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tour level backswing top of the swing

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was tall level

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shift down was great impact position

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looked good

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in terms of like body orientations

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follow-through was nice and balanced

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yet he topped it so it's like why

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because he didn't hit that spot on the

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ground

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right so so it's it's like yes you can

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work on the swing but ultimately the

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function of your shot whether that shot

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is good or bad is going to be

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did you hit that spot in the right place

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did you hit the center of the face

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uh did you you know with the face

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presented more open or closed those are

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the big three

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things right uh jeff said he can't wait

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for his divot board pierre said you keep

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it simple

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like to focus on task more and he's

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going to invest in your book

62:34

uh real quick guys i sent everyone an

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email

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i sent everybody an email who um who

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signed up for

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this event adam was giving away um

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some bonuses that you guys can sign up

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keep in touch

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with adam uh and what he's doing and you

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can find him at uh

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adamyounggolf.com um

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as well had a great time everyone

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and feel free to reach out to me with

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any questions if you need to

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um and i appreciate all of you

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for coming yeah thanks for tuning in

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guys

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great all right guys have a good one

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cool all right

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i'll speak to you later bye take care

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adam thanks for coming

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no problem bye

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