[SWING SPEED FIX] Avoid These 5 Moves

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all right today's video we're going to

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talk about a subject that i think

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all of us want more of and a lot of us

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are finding

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really hard to get and that's speed what

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needs to happen in your golf swing to

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generate more speed

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so you can generate more ball speed so

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you can generate more distance we're

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going to show you the things

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that you may be trying to do that are

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actually hurting you from gaining speed

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we're going to show you exactly the

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things you need to be doing to get more

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speed in your swing

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all right sean like we do in most videos

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let's go through a couple of these

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we'll almost call them speed killers

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because we see them every day

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from golfers who come in trying to gain

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more speed and they're doing

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at least one of these if not several of

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these

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so in essence it is killing their speed

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so we'll start

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we'll give you five of them that we see

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very often and chances are

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one at least one of these five is in

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your swing

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they're heavily on the concepts but

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we're going to go through each five of

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them here

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before we get started with the gears so

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number one it's a big one

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number one would be um let's just start

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from the bottom right

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no lateral motion starting back like

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trying to not sway at all

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starting back right and we see this all

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the time right freezing

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we see the the the image that golfers

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have in their head

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is i don't want to like like you okay

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you sway and you do all that right

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that turns into not wanting to do that

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turns into

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100 doing that thinking they're keeping

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the center of this belt buckle right

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still but my hips are actually moving

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way forward yeah what he's doing there

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that is 100 a speed killer

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bad it's a shock killer too yeah so if

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you're trying to hold them

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uh completely still laterally and start

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the backswing

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you're leaving out all this motion that

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can help you get things moving in the

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right direction also start tilting your

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hips which is

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really important when we get to how to

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add speed right we're going to show you

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a gears here in just a second

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of what should happen with this yeah

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okay so that's number one trying to kill

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your lateral motion so we've got our pro

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and our am here

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and just a reminder all the data we're

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showing is from real golfers making real

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swings

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these golfers get suited up with 32

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markers placed at key locations across

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their body and club

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this allows us to see exactly what's

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happening during the swing

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we've also removed the club and ball so

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we can make our golfers as large as

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possible but

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these are real swings gotta emphasize

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that these are not practice swings these

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are real swings

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we want to highlight a couple things

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here on the screen one the sway numbers

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you see here at the top

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are going to give you real time location

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information

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of where each coffers center of pelvis

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is moving positive number means the

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pelvis is moving laterally towards the

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target a negative number means it's

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moving laterally

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away from the target next we're using

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these small rotating balls to track each

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golfer's center of pelvis movements

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so you can see where they start and

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where they move to

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and finally we put a thin white line

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behind their left heels

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if you've seen our pros versus ams video

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on hip rotation and early extension

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you know how important it is to not have

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a lot of your rear end

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behind this line and as you can see here

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our am is in a very prototypical

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amateur setup with a lot of his butt

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behind that line

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that's going to create an issue for him

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right off the bat

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as these guys start moving you're going

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to see two completely different movement

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patterns

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and these are two patterns we see every

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day

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the pro is moving his pelvis to the

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right or away from the target

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as he rotates back the am is moving his

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pelvis forward

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as he rotates back we're only taking

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these guys to the end of their takeaways

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or when the club shaft is parallel to

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the ground at this spot

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our pro here is right on a pro average

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of about 1.2

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inches of movement away from the target

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at the end

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of his takeaway our amm has also moved

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1.2 inches but he's moved in the

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complete opposite direction

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anytime there's an opposite movement

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from what good players do

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it's something you'll probably want to

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correct because our am was told that

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sliding was bad and he should avoid that

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at all cost he

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thought and felt he was turning with a

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centered pivot he felt he was turning

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around the middle of his hips but as you

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can see

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it wasn't the case moving laterally in

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the golf swing whether you want to call

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it sliding swaying

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lateral movement however you want to

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describe it is not bad

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it's when it's done and how much it's

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done

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that's what creates the issues anything

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good can be overdone

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so here's a great way to know if you're

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moving correctly

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to start your swing place an alignment

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stick outside your right leg

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like we're showing here swing the club

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to the end of your takeaway when the

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shaft is parallel to the ground

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if your hips have moved away from that

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alignment stick you're moving your

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pelvis in the wrong direction as you

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turn

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instead you want to see your right hip

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move into that stick a bit like you see

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our pro here doing

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doing this correctly will help set up

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your backswing for a dynamic and

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athletic

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downswing all right sean number two

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and this is one that we both did when we

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were younger

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yeah we both have bad backs now i built

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a little contraption

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yeah so i could do this one i had a guy

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who was helping me with my swing he

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wasn't an instructor but he was a really

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good player right you know

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when you're younger and you go to like

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okay this is the best player at the club

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you get help from him and you know you

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think it's gold right

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told me to envision both of my knees

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in a cast that sounds bad right

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and i did i was pretty darn athletic

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when i was younger

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and i could do that and i got this

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i aged really quick trying that but we

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see that all the time yeah so

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exactly and i was i was trying to

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basically

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if you put a shaft down like this across

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my knees i was trying to not

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change the knee flex at all right with

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either leg like i was thinking this one

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was okay to come in but i didn't want

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him to change

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this way at all which we know now is

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just dead wrong

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trying to to hold this lower body still

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and crank the upper body one you're

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gonna be most likely gonna get

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what we just saw on number one like the

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hips are gonna turn level

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and move forward that's gonna tilt the

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upper body back you're gonna get in a

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world of hurt as far as generating speed

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and maybe a world of hurt as far as pain

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goes

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no absolutely i think that one really

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can do a number on your back and i can

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speak to that

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yeah so let's take a look at gears what

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we see good players do what we see fast

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players do

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with regards to this despite being a

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simple and straightforward movement

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knee bend is something we see cause

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problems for both pros and amateurs

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when and how much the knee bends has a

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big influence on what happens above

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and below it let's look at what happens

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in a good knee bend pattern

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notice how our pros knees start changing

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their bend

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right away we often see ams trying to

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hold their knee bend until late in the

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backswing which isn't something we see

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in great swings by the time he reaches

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the top of his swing

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his right knee is lost around 10 degrees

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of bend while his left knee

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has more than doubled its bend depending

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on how much knee bend you have at

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address

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we typically like to see a 5 to 10

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degree loss

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in right knee bend with at least a

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doubling in the left knee

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the reason for this is it creates a

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tremendous advantage for you

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in the transition when the right knee

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straightens it raises the right hip

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when the left knee doubles its bend it

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lowers the left hip

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that combo puts you in this powerful

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downhill position

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at the top which allows you to really

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leverage the ground in your downswing

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for a serious boost of speed

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and that brings us to the arrows you're

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seeing here we're able to measure the

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amount and direction of force the golfer

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generates

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under each foot during the swing the

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blue arrow is the force generated under

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his right foot and the yellow

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is the force generated under his left

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foot here at address the forces are

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fairly balanced

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as he starts moving and his knees begin

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to change their bend you can see how

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that affects the amount and direction of

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these forces

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each playing a big role in his rotation

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and his lateral move

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it's in this area of the backswing where

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we typically see great players create

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the largest amount of force under their

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right foot this is where the golfer is

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using the ground

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to brace against that movement created

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off the ball in the takeaway

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this is the dynamic starting point for

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the downswing

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now by contrast a common amateur move we

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see is this

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right foot spike late into the downswing

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as the golfer is trying to push off late

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to get to their left side

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nearing impact learning to bend your

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knees correctly will allow you to create

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a dynamic start to your downswing which

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is a great and easy

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way to add a bunch of speed to your

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swing all right so for number three

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and these are kind of building in

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sequence as

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they show up in the lesson t in

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popularity right

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this one is just over turning in the

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backswing

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unlimited at all cost like i'm just

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going to rotate my body as much as

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possible

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thinking that that wind up will just be

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magic on the downswing this one is

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terrible

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i mean yes it is entire time what what

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the golfer normally does

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i'm going to max out my turn they stand

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up and

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one of the reasons they stand up it

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releases the body angle so it allows

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them to turn more

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so not only are they turning more

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they're losing all these great kind of

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hip tilts and body tilts that they need

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to make a decent golf swing so by trying

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to do that to get more speed

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not only are they ruining the the motion

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or the plane of their swing

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right right they're going to slow down

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because they it takes too much time to

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get that back to the ball and you can

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talk about that

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so they're going to do one element of

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the swing at the sake of about

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five other elements that's right that

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are very important for producing speed

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so you're like

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robbing peter and you've got to pay paul

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mary john and tim

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and of course on the down swing in the

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quarter of a second and all you always

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wind up short

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so if you think about this aspect of

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rotation

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as far as timing goes okay like a good

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range of motion

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which is how much you can rotate from

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the top of the swing

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to impact right that quarter of a second

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a good range of motion

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is 80 degrees most normal golfers are

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somewhere around

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70 a few really flexible young

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flat belly pros are around 90. so kind

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of a conservative range is that 75 to 85

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in a quarter of a second what we see

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golfers in their 60s do

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in 70s in some cases 60 to 65 degrees of

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rotation

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because they're standing up they've got

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the club wrapped around them they think

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this is going to be speed

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now the best they can do is get about 10

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degrees open with their hips

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and again the clock face the one minute

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mark is six degrees so just a little bit

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more than that

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the chest is closed the shoulders are

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really closed

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and you've seen this guy on the range

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he's coming through impact like that

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okay he has to

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any thought of unlimited rotation

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you can't cash in on it by impact

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because you're going to be closed and

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you're going to have to give all that up

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by throwing the loft and just throwing

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the club head at the ball yeah so

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there's a way to turn correctly that

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you can still feel like you're you're

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making a big enough turn right but

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you're putting the body in the right

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position to do it

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that's so much more valuable to

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generating speed okay so

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scrap the idea and you'll see here

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what's going to happen with the pros

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scrap the idea of just

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maximum rotation for maximum speed

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that's not how it happens

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here's a great example of why balanced

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rotation which we'll explain to you in a

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minute

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is better than just trying to increase

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your rotation you're looking at the

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before and after

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of an amateur golfer in his 60s 63 if i

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remember correctly and like most golfers

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over 50 he came to us

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looking to get back some of that speed

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lost to father time he was told that

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more rotation was the key to more speed

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more rotation going back

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and more rotation coming down and that's

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exactly what he worked on

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you're looking at his first wing that we

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captured and this is him at the top of

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the swing he's turned 45 degrees with

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the hips

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80 with the chest 114 with his shoulders

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those are great numbers for any age now

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let's see if he was able to use that to

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his advantage

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so here he is at impact he was able to

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turn his hips 62 degrees

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during his downswing so 45 close at the

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top to 17 degrees open at impact

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not balanced at all and by that we mean

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we see great players have equal amounts

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of rotation

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on both sides of impact or they're

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favoring more

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open than they were closed so using our

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golfer here is an example he was 45

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close at the top

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that means he would need to be 45 open

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at impact to be balanced

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but that would require him to turn 90

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degrees in the same amount of time

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he was only able to turn 62 degrees you

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see why the idea of

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max rotating in the backswing can most

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often wind up costing you distance

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his club head speed on this 7 iron was

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84 miles an hour

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now let's look at the swing he put up at

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the end of the lesson

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he's now starting down a little less

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rotated than he was before

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we'll go into detail about all the

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changes that we made to a swing in our

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next pros versus ams but we changed his

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rotation here

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at the top by changing his angles in the

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backswing you can see the significant

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difference in how his body is positioned

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between his feet compared to how he was

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before

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as he starts down notice how much freer

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he's turning and how much more speed

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he's applying to the grip we'll talk

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about this more in a few minutes but too

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often we hear golfers given a choice

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either be passive with the arms and

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rotate or pull the arms down and stall

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your rotation

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that's a bogus choice because neither of

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those is good for your swing

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the goal should be to do what our golfer

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here just did he got the grip into the

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club moving faster earlier

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and on plane which allowed him and his

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words to turn through the ball like he

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had never felt before

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he doubled his hip rotation from 17

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degrees

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to 34 degrees open at impact he added 10

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more degrees of rotation to his chest

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and his shoulders went from too closed

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to 8

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open oh and his club head speed jumped

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from 84 miles per hour to 92 miles per

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hour

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by improving his body angles in the

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backswing we were able to improve

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his transition sequence add more speed

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to the grip earlier which allowed him to

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better balance out his rotation

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and for his efforts he was rewarded with

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eight more miles per hour of speed

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in a short amount of time number four we

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see this

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it's become really popular actually it's

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the idea if you remember back the old x

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factor days where you would have golfers

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kind of it goes with our number point

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number two it's that

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holding all this creating this x factor

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in the backswing

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that eventually turned into trying to

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create x factor stretch in the downswing

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where golfers are now trying to

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hold the shoulders yeah fire the lower

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body

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and try to keep that you know kind of

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stretching increase the stretch yeah

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and the the problem with that is that

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there's no time at some point that gap

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needs to be closed right

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the gap between the upper and the lower

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body right and if you're increasing that

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stretch

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as you start down you're never going to

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have a chance to close this not only do

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you lose speed

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your body comes in and this hung back

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closed position

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now you're affecting the release and how

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you hit it on the club face and this

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one's killer

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yes exactly right this one always morphs

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into the idea too of

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passive with the arms get the body super

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rotated and then somewhere down here you

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can just blow the speed and just

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just burn speed down there really

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increase your speed

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that's the opposite of what fast players

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do you need that entire quarter of a

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second

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to generate speed we've got to get this

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end of the club moving as fast as we can

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early so it transfers out to this end if

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you wait and hold this

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end you're going to be robbing yourself

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on the business end and you're going to

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go slower because of it got mountains of

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data that shows that

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one of the coolest things about being

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able to measure golf swings in such

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detail is that we can learn what groups

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of golfers do compared to other groups

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in this case we've captured a number of

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pros who are the fastest

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of the fastest you quickly learn what it

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takes to produce more speed when you're

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able to study

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what golfers do who have speed it allows

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you to separate

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theory from fact fairly fast when the

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goal of the downswing is to basically go

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from zero miles per hour with the club

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head to

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a hundred plus miles an hour in less

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than a quarter of a second

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it's probably a good idea to look at the

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acceleration profiles

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we can see how quickly the hips

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accelerate we can see how quickly the

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chest

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accelerates we can also see the same for

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the club and lastly we can see how fast

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the left arm accelerates in the

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downswing

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here you're looking at a different set

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of pro and amateur golfers

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they're going to demonstrate what we

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commonly see with regards to

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acceleration

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we're using these two golfers because

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they represent a large data set they

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have similar length back swings which

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which are looking at them here at the

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tops of their swings and they both

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rotate really well in fact the am

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rotates more and gets more open than the

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pro does

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the big difference here though is that

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the pro has 25 more miles per hour of

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club head speed

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so we've slowed down the pro swing to

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match the amateur's timing we want you

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to be able to see

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what the pro does relative to what the

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am does and what you can apply

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to your golf swing one common trait we

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see with fast golfers is they get their

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left arm moving

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faster than their hips their chest and

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the club

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very early in the downswing it's the

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opposite of being passive with the arms

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we see them have very strong

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accelerations from the top because again

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they're trying to get their club going

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from zero to over 120 miles an hour in

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about .220 seconds

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not really something you can do

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passively so what we're going to do is

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stop each of these golfers in their

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downswings when their left arm is

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accelerating

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faster than the club the chest and the

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hips

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as you can see it didn't take our pro

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long to reach that spot

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the am however never gets his left arm

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accelerating faster than the other three

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which was something he told us he was

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trying not to do

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by the end of the lesson we were able to

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help him change his concept and most

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importantly

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show him how to ramp up his acceleration

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how you can change those accelerations

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like he did

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is something we're gonna share a lot

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more about all right so let's have a

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little fun here with our number five

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speed killer which is

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over simplification first let's be very

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clear

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we love simple simple drills simple

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swing thoughts

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and simple concepts all us golfers come

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in a lot of different shapes and sizes

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we also come from a variety of different

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athletic backgrounds and we want you to

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rely on those athletic instincts

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in a misguided effort to simplify the

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golf swing we often see golfers strip

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away

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key speed producers from their swings

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the idea being if i remove enough

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movement the swing will become simpler

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that's true but there's a tipping point

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with that and we see it tip in the wrong

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direction

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all the time a great example of this is

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the topic of lateral movement the fix

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for too much lateral movement isn't to

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remove it completely

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or just move in the opposite direction

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like we've already seen we want you to

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apply that same logic

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to something as simple as a jump we can

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really simplify a jump by removing the

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counter movement when you lower yourself

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to the ground

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that would certainly make the jump more

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simple but would it make it better

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of course not if you're tired of not

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swinging with the speed you know you're

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capable of

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start by removing these five speed bumps

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from your swing

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most golfers will have at least one you

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might have a couple or you might even

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have all of them

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whatever the case just know it is

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fixable you

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absolutely can increase the speed you

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have now with the body you have now

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we get to help golfers do it every day

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sean this is usually the part of the

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video where i stand here and watch you

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do some drills i talk you actually do

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the work

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instead of making this just go on and on

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and on with these four topics

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and how much time does it take typically

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