“Re-Centering” Your Secret Weapon To A Smooth and Athletic Golf Swing

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sean we're out here beautiful day long

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par four carsville country club and

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there's a term that we coined a few

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years back called recentering and it's a

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question we get all the time and you're

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definitely gonna want to do it

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if you want to hit more fairways and

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farther down the fairway

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like a hole here in this video we're

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going to show you how to do it with all

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your clothes

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we've talked about re-centering for a

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while now we talked about the importance

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of not only

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allowing your body to move laterally to

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the right but also of course back to the

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left

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and we see an every great swing we've

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looked at on gears we see it in the

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force data

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but swaying has got to be kind of a

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dirty word right

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over the over the past handful of years

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and i think a big part of it is

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golfers get themselves in trouble when

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the timing of that movement is off

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and a good indication of what we see is

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a golfer who will try

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not to sway right they're at set up

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they're moving into the back swing and

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then somewhere near the end of the

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backswing they realize they got to

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generate

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some sort of athletic motion and then

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they bounce to the right

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and then they're basically starting

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their downswing from deep into the right

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side

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yeah they they know i think kind of

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instinctively they need some kind of

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momentum so they get they try to stay

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really locked in

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they're gonna move anyway but they're

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doing it at the wrong time they try to

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do it as the club finishes they go to

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the right

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and it destroys any kind of good

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sequencing they would have had

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yeah you're exactly right and you know

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golfers oftentimes will think it's an

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either or proposition

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i can either move laterally or i can

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rotate everyone likes to rotate

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but when you actually look at what good

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golfers do we have yet to see a

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professional golfer

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who doesn't rotate while they're moving

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laterally

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right the two are always coexisting and

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again it's when you do it it makes all

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the difference

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so we're going to show you a couple real

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world examples here

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and we're going to look at john rom

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first and what we're going to do is put

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a line

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right down the side of both legs

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we're going to demonstrate what we

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talked about for a long time the

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re-centering aspect of the golf swing

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and you'll see very clearly in this

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swing here

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as he gets moving in the backswing you

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can see that initial bump to the right

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right we see it all the time and it

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usually happens

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somewhere in the first foot or so of the

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backswing yeah as soon as that club

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start moving

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the golfers that we see at playing at a

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high level are moving to the rights or

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away from the target slightly

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and it happens really early in the

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backswing right so this little gap that

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he starts with his

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outside of his right leg is immediately

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closed

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and then john's got a typically or a

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shorter swing than

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most pros have so he'll start to

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recenter

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early and then right here

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he's back between those two red

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lines like he was where he started he's

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equal space between those two red lines

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and that's the

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very desonate definition of being

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centered i think the key

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point to make here is that he moves to

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the right

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early right and as he's finishing his

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turn

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close or his backswing rotation as he's

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doing that

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that's when he makes that re-centering

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move back to the middle so he's

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turning in the backward direction to

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finish the backswing

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and shifting toward the target a little

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bit and that's the part i think people

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uh have trouble with it's it's such a

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huge point to drive home

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is golfers always associate rightward

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movement as backswing

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leftward movement or forward movement as

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downswing

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both are happening in the backswing or

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should be happening when when his hips

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are still

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closing he's already started shifting

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forward

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and then by the time he does shift

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forward or

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his arms do come down he's well into his

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forward

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shift it's not starting his forward

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shift there and that's

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undoubtedly one of the most common i

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would say

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causes for issues we see in typical

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amateur golf swings yeah they they

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associate

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the forward motion with forward rotation

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so as soon as they make any kind of

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lateral back toward the target they

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start to fire the hips

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in reality you you know you want this

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shift turn

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shift turn motion in the swing that

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first shift

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shift happens then you make the

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backswing turn then you make the shift

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back toward the middle then you turn

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again and if you can remember that

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shift turn shift turn you'll be on the

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right track exactly right now let's take

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a look at another golfer so we're going

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to see

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another really clear example this time

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when the driver is we're always asking

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okay does this apply to a driver does it

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supply to an iron

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both apply equally here so we're going

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to look at xander

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get another smaller golfer now but

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very powerful golfer and you're going to

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see why one of the reasons why

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and using these lines when you record

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your swing

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get used to putting these lines outside

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of each leg you're going to learn a lot

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about your golf swing

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relative to your weight shift by doing

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that so as xander gets started you can

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see

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a big movement to the right and this is

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very common with

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many of the top players in the world

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yeah they get that early shift off the

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ball gets that momentum started in the

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correct direction

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then as the club starts making its way

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over his head you're going to see what

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happens next which is that little

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re-centering move and a little bit of a

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side track but that's a pet peeve of

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ours

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we see so many golfers trying to avoid

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this world-class movement off the ball

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and again

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this is something whether you're three

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years old or 300 years old you can make

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this movement

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right here in the golf swing it takes

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next to zero athleticism to do it

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but we see so many people trying to

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avoid it because

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or in an effort to simplify a movement

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and you

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we're all for simplification but you can

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simplify and strip away a movement

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so much to where you're actually now

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you're hurting yourself

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it takes away all the athleticism right

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and that initial move away

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on the backswing that's that's the kind

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of the start of making any kind of

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athletic movement

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if you're throwing a baseball or right

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or hitting a baseball or any of those

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kind of sports there's a shift

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before you go forward and golf is no

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different it's just

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when you do it in the amounts that make

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it work and if you're doing it at the

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wrong time it will totally destroy

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emotion we record hundreds of golfers

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throwing a ball

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right just standing there throwing a

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ball on the forest plates and yeah 100

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of them make a movement back they don't

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even think about it

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right we can simplify just you think of

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it just a simple

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movement of a jump we can simplify a

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jump by not lowering ourselves that

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would simplify

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but you just wouldn't jump very high you

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wouldn't be very explosive in the golf

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swing if you took away this movement

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yeah these guys are

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obviously now having to hit it farther

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and farther they're they're not cutting

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off that initial lateral movement

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because it adds speed to the motion

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it's the springboard for that forward

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and the more we look at these

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force plates that we have the more we

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realize how important that first little

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move away is it sets up all the ground

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forces

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all right so here he is going up near

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the top now

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you can see right here as the weight of

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that club starts to swing back over his

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head

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he is boom right there re-centered and

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that's about

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as dynamic and as on time re-centering

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as you can do

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in the golf swing and it's no wonder he

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is a long hitter especially for the size

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he is and the speed he's able to

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generate is quite impressive

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there's no holding back there no no he's

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not avoiding

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or trying to avoid any lateral movement

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he's taking advantage of the lateral

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movement

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so he can really explode into the golf

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ball and we'll show you the gears

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version of this

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here as well and you're going to see

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something it's a pretty textbook example

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of what you're looking for so right here

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at the bottom is the sway number

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and here's something we've never shown

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before this is the shoulder sway number

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so a three dimensional dot right between

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the shoulders okay and the

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three-dimensional jot

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right in the center of the pelvis so

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these two numbers

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will start they also always start at

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zero and once the golfer starts moving

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they'll move

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you can see here this golfer the

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winner out there on tour he shifts the

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average is right around one to one and a

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half

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inches shift away from the target he's

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right there in the middle of that range

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and then immediately

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pretty much right after the takeaway you

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can see how that starts to drift

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back now video wise you wouldn't see

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much movement at all

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right this is always happening before

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you actually see the movement

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and then by the time he gets to the top

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of his swing he is

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literally back to zero zero you can see

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as that club was finishing as it was

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going back toward the target the club

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head

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right over his head that's when he makes

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that little shift back to where he

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started

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that's pretty classic and then of course

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you see the the completion of that shift

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forward

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it comes down into impact it's just a

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very dynamic way

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to swing it's a very natural athletic

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way you do this every time you throw a

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ball

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without ever thinking about it i think

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just because the ball is sitting there

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still

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you start from a still position and it

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kind of makes things awkward

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but we're going to show you uh here in

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the warehouse

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how to add this dynamic movement to your

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golf swing

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and do it in time so you can actually

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start to hit the ball with a lot more

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dynamic dynamics dynamicism dynamics

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close enough

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more athleticism hit it a lot farther

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and a lot more accurately

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all right so we got our old faithful

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chef that board here and our good buddy

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mark chef that makes these and

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we'll put a link down below how you can

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get one but this is a great little

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training aid basically to teach you how

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to recenter and the timing of the

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recentering because

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basically do it on a seesaw so we're

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gonna put sean seesaw down here on the

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ground yeah

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and sean has a really

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super valuable way of teaching yourself

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how to feel this

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yeah so what i have people do is take a

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an iron

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and grip it under the head so it this

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end gets really light you got kind of a

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counterweight right

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put your lead hand on your trail

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shoulder this is important because

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when we first started doing this guys

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would just leave their arm out and they

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were just

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raising the arm they weren't really

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turning this kind of makes you turn yeah

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this this gives you the sense that you

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got to move the body and the arm like

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you would in a normal swing with two

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hands

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the reason i like it with one hand

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though is it gives you a better sense

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of the timing of when the shift happens

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it's a little difficult at first with

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two hands if you haven't done it

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just because it complicates it a little

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bit yeah it's more like a throwing

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motion though yeah

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it really turns on your kind of

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athleticism and the feel of that

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and the timing really gets more natural

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with just one hand okay

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so so to start with we want to start

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with the left side down and the club out

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in front

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yeah so left side down club here

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okay and the motion is click

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swing click swing all right so

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said something very important there it

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was start with on the left

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click it early click it still in the

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back swing yeah

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click and it's not a big mass shove or

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that's the big deal tipping this way a

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bunch it's just click swing

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click swing so i'm moving pressure

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learning to move pressure without a big

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mass

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movement now the the important thing and

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i think this is probably

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whenever we get golfers on these in

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lessons for the first time

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always we will see a click everybody

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gets that first click

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click right it's it's two the clicks are

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in the backswing

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yeah they need to be yes it's click

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swing as i'm still making the backswing

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motion i

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click it down then i hit and i like what

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you said that it's not just

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throwing this around or trying to slide

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forward to lower that

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balance yourself there in the middle

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yeah it's tough to do right really tight

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just drop one side lower the other so

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you can move this board without really

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throwing your body around and that's the

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mentality you want to start taking into

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your swing is i don't really want to

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move too

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much mass there's some especially on the

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downswing but the idea of

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getting that pressure over there so i

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can kind of hit against that

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is the feeling you want so this is what

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we talk about all the time when you

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shift your pressure

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at the right timing you have much more

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time in the downswing

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and by having this left side down in the

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backswing

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i'm now done in the downswing i'm just

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turning and posting on that lead leg

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rather than trying to shift to it on the

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boundaries and that's what we've learned

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a lot from these gas plates is

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when when should that foot be down when

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should you start pushing

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in order to get the clubhead speed into

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the ball and

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it needs to happen earlier so you can

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push earlier and let that happen

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yeah these vertical forces have got a

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spike when

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when the club's pretty much vertical

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coming down yeah so it reaches vertical

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about right here

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most guys well you better be kind of

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positioned

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with pressure on the left foot and your

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body in a position where you can stretch

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this left side out and spike the

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pressure

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and then this gets we'll get maximum

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speed yeah because a lot of you out

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there

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are not you're not even getting back to

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50 50

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until that peak is supposed to be

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occurring so you're just way late and

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you're missing out on a lot of potential

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club head speed

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so get yourself a board teach yourself

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the proper timing of it go slow put the

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club upside down

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both clicks in the back swing and then a

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down swing and i think you're going to

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really start to see this transfer to

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your swing out on the course

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