Lydia Ko - 3 steps to better impact
Lydia Ko - 3 steps to better impact
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Description
Lydia Ko is the youngest person in the history of golf to winner a major championship. In this video, I'll highlight 3 features of her swing that makes her a great ball striker round after round.
Video Practice Points
- Shift your weight and then rotate your body to load up.
- Externally rotate your lead leg to start the downswing.
- Head down, heel down, release.
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Hey everyone, it's me again, RST
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instructor Chris Tyler, And it is my
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great pleasure to bring you this week's
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tour analysis on the youngest player in
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women's golf history to win a major
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championship, Lydia Ko. Picking up a win
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at the Evian Championship this past
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weekend at 18 years of age, 4 months, and
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20 days. So congratulations to her. I
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actually got a good chance to look at
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some of her stats and was absolutely
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blown away by how many categories she's
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in the top 10. And I know that she's
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going to be a dominant force of women's
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golf for a long period of time. So again,
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congratulations to her.
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So this week, I'm going to be focusing in
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on three key areas of her golf swing that
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allow her to be very, very consistent and
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give her really good compression on the
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golf ball. Which, in turn, allows her to
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hit a lot of greens and regulation and
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set herself up for a lot of birdies. So
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if you've been looking for a better way
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to get more consistent on the golf
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course, you want to pay close attention
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to today's analysis. Because I'm going to
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lay out a good, detailed list of
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checkpoints for you to look for in your
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own swing. So that you can start playing
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some of your best golf day in and day
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out. Let's go ahead and get started.
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Okay gang, so as I said in the opener,
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We're going to be focusing in on a three
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-step process that's going to help you
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understand how to become a more
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consistent ball striker, much like Lydia.
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And these are really three big keys to
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her golf swing. These aren't necessarily
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all the great things. There's a lot of
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great moving parts in her swing. But I
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just want to touch base with these three
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areas because I looked at this golf swing
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for quite a few minutes and said, okay,
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these are the areas that I see a lot of
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amateur golfers at home struggle with.
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And in turn, this is going to give you
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the most bang for your buck when you
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start to work through this process.
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All right. So what we're going to be
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looking at from a face-on perspective.
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Number one, we want to be able to shift
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our weight. We want to be able to load up
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our trail side.
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And we want to be able to rotate around
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our axis.
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So if you're doing some self-analysis on
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your golf swing, these are some lines I
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want you to be able to draw.
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You can use the self-analysis tool on the
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website here if you have any sort of
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other app on your phone or iPad, or
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whatever it may be. But use these lines
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here. So when you draw this line up right
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from the center of your trail ankle,
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you want to draw a line down the spine
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and then a line down off the back of the
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tush here. This is what we call a tush
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line.
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And your first objective is to make sure
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that you shift your weight into your
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trail side. And that's what she does. You
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can see her weight start to shift over
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into that side.
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So she's getting her weight over there to
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help stabilize things and help create a
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post in her right leg. That now, in turn,
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she's going to start to rotate her body
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on.
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Okay. So from there, she's going to
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rotate to the top of her swing. And what
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you're looking at from a down the line
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perspective, what you're looking for as
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far as a checkpoint is concerned, is that
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you're going to want to notice that your
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hips have not come forward. So you don't
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want to see that your rear end has come
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up off this line, and you don't want to
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see any sort of drastic change to the
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angle of the spine.
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Okay. Those will tie hand in hand here.
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If you see the hips starting to come
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forward, then in turn you're going to
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start to see your spine go vertical. Now,
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The reason why I showed you the face-on
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perspective first was nine times out of
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ten when we look at amateur golfers, the
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reason why the hips come forward in the
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first place is either A, it's from a
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posture problem, or B, not really wanting
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to shift enough weight over to the trail
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side. Now, why?
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Well, a lot of times golfers are taught
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to stay very centered, and I agree with
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that. We want to stay as centered as
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possible.
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But when you start to shift your weight,
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you feel like you're making this big
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lateral shift, and in turn, What you've
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probably been trained to do is get your
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left arm or your lead shoulder to push
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across your center, Which, in turn, is
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going to move your head way off the golf
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ball, and it's going to feel like even
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more of a sway. So, if you shift your
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weight over into that trail side to feel
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roughly 70% or so into your right heel,
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right ankle, and you've pulled your right
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shoulder blade in towards your spine,
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that's going to help you stay centered to
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where you're not going to feel like
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you're swaying. But if you allow your
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lead shoulder and your lead arm to start
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to push across your center, that's what's
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going to move your head off the golf ball
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and make it feel like a drastic sway.
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And in turn, you're going to want to feel
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like, all right, I'm not going to want to
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shift, And then it's going to make it
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very difficult for you to rotate around
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your axis and keep your hips back.
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Okay, so now you understand the kind of
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cause and effect relationship to this
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first step. So, first thing, make sure
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you shift your weight. Make sure you keep
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your knee flex. Okay, that's a good way
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to also be able to keep your butt back,
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and then pull your right shoulder blade
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in towards your spine and load that golf
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swing up. Okay, that's step one. So,
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let's get over to step number two here,
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and we'll start to look at the downswing.
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Okay, gang, so here we are at step number
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two, And we're going to be looking at
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some downswing sequencing and give you
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guys a couple of checkpoints at home that
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are going to help you better understand
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what you're looking for in your own golf
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swings.
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So, the big question here that I want to
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ask you is, what do we want to start our
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downswing? Well, you've heard us say it a
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thousand times, we want to start our
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downswing with the lower half.
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So, as you're starting to near the top of
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your golf swing, just like Lydia is here,
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I've got her freeze-framed on both face
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-on and down the line, You're going to
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want to learn how to externally rotate
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your lead leg and get your lead knee over
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into neutral joint alignment as soon as
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possible. So, you're going to see as her
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hands are starting to reach the top, she
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is externally rotating her lead leg, and
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now she's got her lead knee into neutral
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joint alignment here. So, let me draw
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this line straight up from the center of
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the ankle. If you are unfamiliar with
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what neutral joint alignment is, we've
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got several videos on the website that
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will go through that with you. I'll put
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some videos over in the recommended
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videos tab to help you understand what
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all that stuff means. But, you can see
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that the center of the lead knee is right
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over the center of the lead ankle. So,
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she has now transferred a good bit of her
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weight into her lead side.
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So, from a face-on perspective, what
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you're going to be looking for is
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external rotation of the lead knee to get
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it into neutral, but don't do much with
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your shoulders and your arms. You want
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your lead arm to end up at about parallel
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to the ground. So, you can see she's done
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really, really well with that particular
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move. She's allowed the lower half to
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make all the moves for the upper half of
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the body. Now, looking at things from a
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down-the-line perspective, What I want
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you to pay close attention to here is
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that the hips and the knees are in a
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wound-up position here. So, we're
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probably about 40, maybe 45 degrees wound
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up with the hips and knees. When we get
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our hips and knees back to square,
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okay, You want to see that you're
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virtually in that same position where the
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lead arm is at parallel to the ground,
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and your lead knee is going to be over
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neutral like you see here. So, you want
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to do your best when you're making your
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shift, not to just shift your hips, you
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want to externally rotate the lead leg.
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So, it's going to help create rotation.
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It's a very dynamic move. It's a very
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athletic style move.
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Okay, so those are your checkpoints. When
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your hips and knees get back to square,
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you want to make sure that your lead leg
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is in neutral and your lead arm is
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parallel to the ground. Okay, don't allow
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your arms to get too far down there.
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Then, It's going to be you trying to pull
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your arms down in front of you and you're
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going to be an all-out race. And,
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unfortunately, your arms can be a very,
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very big culprit for a lot of your
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problems in your golf swing.
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All right, so that's going to be step
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two. Those are some good checkpoints for
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you. Now, There's actually one final
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checkpoint here, and I don't want to
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overwhelm you with information in this
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video, but there's some things that we
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see that happen so commonly. And if
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you're going to be doing a lot of self
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-analysis, we might as well give you the
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information so you know what you're going
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to be looking for. And what I want you to
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pay close attention to here is up off the
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lead ankle here, okay, that left hip
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line, okay, this is straight up from the
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center of the ankle. I want you to notice
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the space that there is from the torso to
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this line. And when she starts to
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externally rotate the lead leg and starts
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to get her weight over that side, notice
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how her torso moved in that direction
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with it. So, it's a dynamic move from the
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upper half. She's allowing the lower body
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to pull the upper half with it. Now, What
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we see a lot of times with amateur
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golfers is that they tend to try to keep
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their torso back there and just shift
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their hips. And that creates a lot of
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secondary axis tilt. It makes it very
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difficult to get a stacked up lead side
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in the hitting area, Which, in turn,
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makes it very difficult to compress a
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golf ball, like those tour pros you see,
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compress it and have that nice, lovely
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sound to it. All right, So, make sure
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that you're allowing your torso to
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dynamically move with the lower half into
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that lead side. That'll help get more
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weight over there. And then you can start
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the posting up move and then start your
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releasing. All right, so let's go ahead
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and look at step number three. Again,
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just to recap here for you real quick,
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externally rotate the lead leg till it's
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in neutral. Make sure your hips and knees
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get back to square and your lead arm is
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going to be parallel to the ground.
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That's a good couple of checkpoints for
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you to start your downswing transition.
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All right, on to step three.
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Okay, everyone, so here we are at the
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third step or third key to Lydia's ball
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striking.
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And I'm going to give you guys some
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checkpoints you're going to be looking
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for in your own swing.
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when we start, after we get our weight
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transferred into our lead side,
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the ultimate goal is, number one, we want
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to have a flat left wrist and we want to
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have a nice stacked up lead side. And let
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me go ahead and just kind of fast forward
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for us. And you can see that she's got a
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great stacked up left side here, really
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good as far as the left shoulder, left
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hip, left knee, left ankle, all right on
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top of each other.
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That's pretty much textbook. Left wrist
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nice and flat,
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proper secondary axis tilt. So that's a
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very good impact position. And that's why
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you can see that she takes a nice divot
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right after the golf ball here and is
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able to control the bottom of the swing
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arc. So very, very good stuff there. So
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let's look at some checkpoints though. So
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let's go ahead and get back into that
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same spot here,
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okay, so that lead arm was parallel to
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the ground. We're going to go ahead and
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get her to start to clear her hips a
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little bit more and get it right down to
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the release point of the swing.
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Do it from a down the line perspective as
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well, get almost in the same frame. So
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we're going to mark three things here.
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We're going to mark the club head
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position,
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okay,
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both face on and down the line. And we're
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going to mark this heel, this right heel.
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And I want you to pay very close
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attention to this. And what we want to
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think here at the release point of the
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golf swing is we want to think head down,
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heel down, release.
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So let's go ahead and just mark the
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position of the head as well.
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Okay, so you can see that her head is in
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behind the golf ball. All right, her heel
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has actually come up the ground a little
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bit. You'll see that from some golfers.
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But you'll also notice that even if the
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heel doesn't come up the ground, they
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haven't had their hips come forward. We
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can generally roll to the inside part of
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this right foot. And you can use it as a
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break so you're not spinning your body
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through the hitting area. You're not
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bringing your hips forward.
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But she does a good job of controlling
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both of those areas. So she doesn't
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really have to worry about it as much.
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But I want you to pay close attention to
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the heel, though, from a downline
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perspective, how it doesn't move as she's
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releasing the club long into 3 o'clock.
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Look how far this club is traveling. So
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you can see right at the release point,
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the heel's not coming up any further.
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She's using it for a break so the body's
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not continuing to rotate through the
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hitting area. And she is releasing this
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golf club out in front of her.
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And then I also want you to pay attention
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from a face-on perspective. Watch how
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quiet her head stays while she's
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releasing the club through the hitting
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area. Long past 3, almost up to about
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shoulder height, before her head starts
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to swivel and look down the fairway. So
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when you start to get down to the release
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part of the golf swing, you want to think
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head down, heel down, release. That's a
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great way to make sure that you can keep
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the club releasing out in front of you.
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It'll help you get a lot of maximum speed
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where it counts the most. And that's at
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the bottom of the swing arc. And it'll
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help you overcome a lot of those common
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swing faults that we see. They're hip
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spinning,
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early extension of the spine,
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rotating your whole body through the
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hitting area, which are very common. It
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can also create a lot of secondary axis
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tilt. So you can see that using your
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trail foot as a break in the golf swing
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is very critical for a number of reasons.
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But it's a matter of how you get into
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your lead side first before you can start
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to worry about using that as a break. So
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you can see that there was a process
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involved here. So what I want you to do
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is just go through these steps. Make sure
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that you've got good load and rotation
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really into a good spot. Make sure that
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you have a good transition into your lead
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side. And then ultimately, Make sure that
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you keep your head and your heel very
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quiet while you're starting to release
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the golf club. And you'll be well on your
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way to hitting some very quality like
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golf shots.
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Okay, so a couple videos I want you guys
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to check out. Roll the right foot in the
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downswing. That's a good video for you
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players that you'll hear me. I recommend
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that video quite a bit. I also want to
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look at keep the right arm straight to
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turn. That's another good video for those
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of you that have been struggling getting
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good load and good rotation in your golf
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swing. Notice that you've been maybe
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collapsing your width.
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The tush line and then sitting into the
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left side, those videos are also
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fantastic. These are going to be over to
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the right hand side of the video player
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under the Recommended Videos tab. Just
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click that recommended videos tab. All
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these videos will populate and then
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working on a nine to three swing, Trying
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to keep your head as quiet as possible
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while you're releasing the club out in
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front and keeping your heel down is going
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to ultimately secure you into a world of
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better ball striking. So work through
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those processes, get things in line and
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get out there and let's play some great
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golf. All right, guys, I hope you had a
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great weekend. Let's make it a great day.
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