This PGA Pro Shows You How To [Really Rotate] in The Golf Swing

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okay

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into paddy's golf tips today we're going

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to talk about how the torso

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and the shoulders move in the golf swing

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the winner of the gold medal

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and the champion golfer of the year is

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podrick harrington

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probably the first thing to understand

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is in the golf swing after you take a

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natural posture

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again a natural posture is your arms

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hanging we don't want to get too rigid

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we certainly don't want to be hanging

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out there the shoulders don't

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turn horizontally or to the hips that

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that's sometimes a lot of people

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they're trying to turn their shoulders

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this way the shoulders actually turn

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in this matter so it's like a pulling

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motion

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so watch when i turn my shoulders so i'm

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not trying to turn horizontally

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i'm trying to turn them up so my right

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shoulder is coming up my left down

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now watch the structure when i turn okay

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nice turn there now remember i've left

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my hip go because if i kept my hip in

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place i'd have a shoulder turn like that

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which would be no use

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most golfers want to get their shoulder

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at least to the golf ball or a little

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bit

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to the right of it in their backswing so

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watch i let my hip go

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you can see my shoulder turn okay now

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that shoulder turn if i actually bring

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it back and show you the structure

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that's where i am that's how much curve

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and side bend i have at the top of the

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backswing

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so there so you can see that's so i

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started in a position with a slight tilt

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but i side bend so as i go around this

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is dropping

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under and it's curving this way so it's

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curving all the way up here and even

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more

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as i get up higher towards my towards

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underneath my armpit here

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so again i'll show you i turn up and if

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i turned around and showed you that

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structure

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that's how much it's been i've side

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bended that much in the backswing

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okay so remember don't turn

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vertically with your hips or

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horizontally with your hips or your

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shoulders

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it's a turn up your right hip goes up

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your right shoulder goes up and you have

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a little bit of

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of side bend like so

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and guess what as you move into your

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left side

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the shoulders and your your torso your

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spine your back

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moves down towards the target and from

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here

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it's very much the reverse so on the

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back swing it's like starting along or

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you pull the cable like so and then the

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downswing once you've sat

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into your left side it's again the left

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shoulder's pulling up

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the left torso is pulling up and your

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right side is side bending so again

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if i show you that as i've come in

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now by stretching up my left side left

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torso

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left shoulder that's how you get open

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you don't get open

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by turning this only brings your hip out

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and

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you won't open up at all or anywhere

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near as much as you will

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by stretching up because that pulls

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everything

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open and it gets you into that position

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that we all want to see

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if you looked at that down the line you

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can see there's a gap there between my

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legs

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my torso is quite open again towards you

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guys

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so i'm down then it comes up my right

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side stays down

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and again you can see how much i've

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stretched up this side

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the left side stretching up the right

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side is pushing down

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that motion like so now again if i do

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that at impact

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so up again you'll see

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if i came around you see how much i've

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to get down to the golf ball

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my right side has bent down there

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there's quite a bit of curvature that's

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dropped down the elbow's dropped down

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and the left shoulder's gone up i'm not

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that

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at impact so i've stretched up i'm

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already slightly open with my shoulders

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maybe 10 degrees

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it's my torso is the bit that's open you

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know that might be 30 degrees this could

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be 45 degrees maybe 35 and 45

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so you can see up

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and that's what opens you up and gives

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you the power but your right side must

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stay down you cannot

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everything can't come up so your right

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shoulder can't come up

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and you certainly don't want to get the

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feeling of turning like this

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because this right hip will come out to

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the ball which is powerless

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so you always want to get the feeling up

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and down

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which will require side bend so you

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should practice with quite a bit of side

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bend

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and side bend okay unfortunately that

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will generally make you hit a cut

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you just have to get used to getting the

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wrist in the right place with that side

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bend

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so again up side bend down

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up with the left shoulder side bend down

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with the right that's what the really is

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that's all there is to

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the torso okay

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you do want to separate the hips from

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the torso on the downswing but it's not

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a good idea to try and separate the hips

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from the torso

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it's actually a very natural thing to do

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it's it's

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evolution to separate so somebody who

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gets to the top and tries to spin

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not a good idea they will naturally move

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out away especially if you're getting

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this stretched feeling

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especially if you get basically the

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longest you can get from your left toe

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to your left shoulder

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is is good as long as you have that

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right side bend

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and you're staying down in it and that

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will give you a good powerful position

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and yes you're going to have to match up

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your wrist action to

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counter that because most people when

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they drop down for side bend

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we'll leave the club face open here to

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cut which isn't great for most handicap

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golfers

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but if you're a better player it's

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certainly a position you should be

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getting into again and then getting the

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wrist

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a one good way of doing that just if

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you're looking for a drill first

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you know there's a pecan drill is get a

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golf ball

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take a nice set up and throw the golf

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ball

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so hold your putting your right hand

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right down playing a right-handed golfer

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and throw it into the ground about two

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yards in front of you to go straight

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if i did that down this line you will

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see

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so you can see i've kept my right side

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down to throw it

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and my left side has accelerated up so

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onto the camera here make sure i don't

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hit my camera man you go

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yeah okay so you see i hold my right

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hand

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go to the top and throw it okay

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you can see that's accelerating up

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as that's staying down it's crucial that

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this right side

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right elbow right side stays in the shot

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down there

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as that accelerates up and that's the

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correct motion for your torso

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it's definitely not

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this way at the top and it's definitely

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not

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this way going through it's up

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like if you were punching me into the

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ground punch pull just like that push

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pull

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that's all there is to the torso

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movement and shoulders

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