Lydia Ko | Minimize Head Movement
Lydia Ko | Minimize Head Movement
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In this video, I'll show you how Lydia Ko rotates her body and minimizes head movement in the swing, allowing her to be a more consistent ball striker week in and week out.
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Hey, what's up Rotary Spin Golfers? This
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is your instructor, Chris Tyler. And we
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are back with this week's tour analysis
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with Lydia Ko, who just became the
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youngest player in LPGA history to win
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two majors. So congratulations to Lydia.
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She's an absolutely phenomenal talent and
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so great for the game of golf. And since
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we're in the midst of a six-week video
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series here on how to become a better,
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more consistent ball striker, I figured
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who better to showcase than Lydia now.
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We're going to be showing you some of her
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head movement that she has in her golf
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swing, much like we discussed in video
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number one. We're going to be talking
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about what we're going to be working on
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in video number two that's coming out
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later this week. So let's go ahead and
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get started now.
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Okay, so as we're in the midst of the six
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weeks to playing the best golf of your
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life, becoming a more consistent ball
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striker, we have Lydia Ko picking up her
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next victory. So I thought to myself,
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okay, There's no better person out there
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for us to start to talk about consistency
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because she is a fantastic ball striker,
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does a really great job of controlling
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the bottom of the swing arc and has very,
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very good control of the club face, which
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leads her to number four on the LPGA Tour
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in greens and regulation. And when you're
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hitting that many greens and regulation
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and you are number one in putting, then
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that makes for a dangerous, dangerous
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arsenal there and a winning combination.
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So congratulations to Lydia for all the
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hard work she's done. She's absolutely
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great for the game of golf. And so let's
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get right into it here. So again, we're
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going to talk a little bit about head
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movement.
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And Lydia does make a little bit of an
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unorthodox move with her head. But again,
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the important part is, Is that it's not?
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The movement that she makes is not
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creating any sort of inconsistencies in
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her swing. And I'll get further into that
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as we start to go through things here. So
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I'm going to mark what we call the tush
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line. I'm going to mark the front of her
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head. And then from a face on
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perspective, I'll mark the head. And
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we're going to draw what we call the
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right hip line. So these are pretty
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common lines.
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And we're doing these tour analysis.
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And you'll notice that there's a little
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tiny bit of space here between the right
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thigh and the right hip line that's drawn
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up straight up from the ankle.
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Now, the unorthodox move here is she's
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going to make more of a sitting move. And
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I know we talked about that in video.
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Number one is that we don't want to have
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any downward head movement. But what she
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does here is she's going to sit into her
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right side. Okay. And that's going to
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start her golf swing. So from a face on
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perspective, you're going to see that she
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sits.
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Okay. So you see the movement of her tush
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going through that line. And now you can
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see that her head moves downward through
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that line where it originally started
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from.
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Okay. Is that a bad thing? No, it's not a
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bad thing. Because again, what we're
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trying to do in the golf swing, our main
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goal for consistency is to be able to
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make sure that we keep our head quiet.
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Yes, number one. But number two, we want
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to maintain the angle to our spine
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through the takeaway, through the
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backswing, through the downswing, and
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even into the follow through, we want to
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maintain that spine angle as long as
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possible. That way, we know that our
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hands and arms are getting lined back up
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at the bottom of the swing arc, which in
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turn is going to allow us to get good
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consistent contact round after round.
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Now, of course, there are other variables
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that are involved with consistent ball
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striking. And we're going to get into
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that later this week when we start to
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release this video number two. But
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the important thing is, is that this
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downward movement, yes, it's increasing
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her spine angle a little bit, but she
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maintains the tush line throughout the
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golf swing. So she's going to actually
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keep her spine in check the entire swing
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now. So she can see that she maintains
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the angle to her spine all the way to the
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top. And then in the downward half here,
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you're going to see her head stays right
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in that same position to where she
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started. And you see how her hips are
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still back against this line.
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Absolutely critical for consistent ball
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striking is making sure that you maintain
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the angle to your spine. That was really
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the main purpose about talking about head
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movement is head movement is one of those
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things that can have your center, your
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spine moving all over the place. And then
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again, It makes very difficult for you to
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get the bottom of the swing arc in the
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same spot every single time. So let's go
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ahead and take a look at this from a face
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on perspective.
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Okay, you're going to see that that
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little gap between the right hip line
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gets nice and filled in there.
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Okay, and then she's only shifting off
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the golf ball, maybe an inch, inch and a
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half or so
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with her head. So you see her head made
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that downward move just a slight one just
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to get loaded into her right leg.
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Okay, and then she's made her head move
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laterally about an inch, inch and a half
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or so. Again, so why is it okay for our
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head to move an inch, inch and a half or
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so off the golf ball? Now, I showed you
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in video one, if you don't allow your
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head to move, and you're going to try
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rotate around your axis, you're going to
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try to rotate your shoulders, and chances
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are, you're going to see that your spine
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will lean more towards the target, which
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is dangerous, dangerous, dangerous.
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So you can see here at the top of her
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swing, she's been able to maintain axis
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tilt, which is absolutely critical for
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safety in the golf swing, And also allows
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you to rotate around your axis axis
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without starting to compress your lower
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vertebrae and gets you into a loaded,
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powerful position. So that's basically
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it. That's the rundown of this week's
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review. You see that she does make a
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sitting move into her right leg, so she's
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going to have a little downward movement
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of her head.
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But she does keep her hips back. She does
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load her right side beautifully here. You
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can see that she keeps that leg flexed,
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much like we talked about in video number
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one. So I hope you guys are out there
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working really hard through video number
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one. And again, we are going to be
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focusing in on video number two,
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releasing tension in the hands and arms,
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just like you see Lydia here when she
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starts to release this club. You can see
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that she carries very little tension in
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the wrists and the forearms so that she
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can allow them to release, roll over the
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top of one another, and extend down the
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target line beautifully. And that's what
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we're going to be working on in video
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number two, guys. So I hope you guys had
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some great success with your reps.
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Let me know if you have any questions or
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comments below, and I will certainly help
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you out along the way. And we will talk
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to you guys later in the week.
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