Patrick Reed - Smooth Golf Swing Transition
Patrick Reed - Smooth Golf Swing Transition
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Patrick Reed's golf swing is a great example of an RST Fundamentals based move. Learn how to increase your club head speed with this one simple trick.
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Hey guys, Chuck Quinton here, founder of
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RotorSwing.com, and I want to talk about
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Patrick Reed's RST fundamentals. If you
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look at his swing and you start to break
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it down like we're going to today,
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There's a ton of things that you can
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learn from his move that help kind of
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personify and help you visualize more.
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The RST fundamentals I talk about in the
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5-step program. And the one thing I want
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to talk about today is the most critical
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move that nearly every amateur golfer
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that I've ever given a lesson to in my
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life, and that's thousands and thousands
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of lessons,
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does this one thing wrong. So listen up,
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because I'm going to show you how to fix
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it and you're going to be able to see it
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in Patrick Reed's swing.
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What I'm talking about specifically is
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really at the top of the swing. I'm going
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to go back a few frames here and show a
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couple things.
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One, notice that he's made this shift
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into his right glute here. His shoulders
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have made a big full turn.
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Everything here is RST fundamentals down
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the middle here. But notice now as his
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shoulders stop moving and his hips stop
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turning, he's loaded up on that right
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glute and he's getting ready to go the
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other direction.
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Notice that what's really going to happen
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now is the only thing that's moving is
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the golf club. So notice that the club
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head keeps traveling down, keeps drooping
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here a little bit, but nothing else is
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moving. So in order for that club head to
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move, those three or four inches there,
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and I'm going to put a line on it just so
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we have a really good perspective of it.
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Clubs dropping, nothing else is moving.
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So what would cause that? Well, there's
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obviously only one thing and that's a
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little bit of flexion in the wrists. Now
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how would the wrists be allowed to set
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like this? Well, the way that most of you
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guys are grabbing the club out there, it
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won't, right? You guys tend to grab the
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club so tightly that when I grab your
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wrists in clinics and in lessons and try
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to move it around, it feels like you're
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trying to kill that poor golf club. It
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didn't do anything to you. Well, it
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probably did do something to you. It
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certainly, you know,
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deserves some punishment at times. But
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generally, you want to make sure that you
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are not trying to kill that thing by
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gripping it too tightly.
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Because when you do, you don't get this
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drop here. Now this drop in itself is
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completely irrelevant and insignificant.
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What it's really doing is showing the
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dynamics of your golf swing and what is
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going to unfold as we start down. And
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that's why this little drop here is a
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critical piece, because it's showing that
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his wrists are soft and supple and
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responding. He can feel the weight of the
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club head and respond to what the club
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head is doing. And swing it instead of
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trying to push against the shaft with the
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left thumb and the right wrist, which is
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what most people do at this point. Notice
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that as he started his hands moving back
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to the left, which is being done by, if I
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focus your attention, draw a little
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circle here. If I focus your attention
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right here on his hips, this is what's
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moving. That's what's moving his hands.
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Notice that the angle created by the club
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shaft and his forearm here is pretty
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sharp. That's not exactly. You get the
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idea. And then as it comes down, it
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actually appears to increase. Now,
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technically, this is because the shaft is
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flattening a little bit. You know, the
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club is shallowing out on plane, which
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makes this angle look much more acute
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than it really is at this stage in the
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swing. But it is actually increasing
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somewhat. And the important thing is not
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so much that it's the amount that it
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increases, but by most people's, most
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amateur golfers position at this point in
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the swing, the club shaft is like this.
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You're already at a 90 degree angle, so
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you're losing half of your leverage
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during the first phase of the downswing.
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And when you lose it this early in the
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downswing? Because your wrists are too
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tight and you're pushing against the
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shaft with your left thumb as a right
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-handed golfer, and your right wrist is
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too rigid, all bets are off. You're going
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to have no power, no leverage in your
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swing as you come down.
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So again, all of this comes down to being
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soft and relaxed with your wrists at the
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top. It's that simple. That's what
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creates this look of lag and leverage.
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And you can see in this swing, he's got a
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tremendous amount of leverage, but he
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didn't try and manipulate and create this
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position. This happened as a byproduct of
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him moving his lower body correctly,
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which if I can focus your attention back
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on his belt buckle.
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Notice how much his belt buckle is moving
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as he's shifting back to the left, and
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his hands are moving down, getting pulled
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down by his body, and his wrists are nice
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and relaxed.
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As that happens, he's got a ton of lag,
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ton of lag, ton of lag, and now because
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he didn't try and do anything to create
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that lag, he'll have a much easier time
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releasing it. So he doesn't have to do
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anything special to manipulate the club
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into impact. Notice his hands are
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actually really, really quiet, and if you
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look closely at his right hand, it's
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barely even on the club.
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And you can tell that if you zoom in a
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little bit. Let me get rid of that for a
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second.
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Zoom in on his right thumb. This is one
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of the areas I always look at people's
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golf swing.
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Notice the angle formed by his thumb and
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forefinger is going up his forearm.
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In many, if not most golfers' swings,
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their right thumb and forefinger line is
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actually kind of pointing over here. It's
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because they're twisting their right hand
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in this direction in a desperate effort
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to square the clubface. And so when you
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do that, all of a sudden you're putting a
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lot of timing into your swing trying to
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square the face. His hands are super
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quiet. Look at his right hand, it's
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almost coming off, hence the BJ release
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drill. You can see he's not pushing
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against the shaft with his thumb and
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forefinger. If you look at your swing
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right now, you'll probably see that this
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thumb or this forefinger is pushing
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against the shaft really hard.
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His hands are essentially just passive
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clamps on the club. They're barely
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holding on and just rotating. If you look
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at his logo of his glove, rotating,
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rotating, rotating,
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hands are soft. So all of that, all of
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this great release and great impact
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position and tons of speed was all
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started right here. If your hands and
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wrists are soft at the top, you have a
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chance to have tons of lag. If they're
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rigid and tight and you're not allowing
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for this little club head fall, focus
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just on this area here.
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Watch this club head.
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Soft and relaxed, soft and relaxed. And
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as it starts to move, as his body starts
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to unwind, that's what's pulling the club
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back through.
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So if you look at the RST five step
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system and you look at video or step
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four, where we start adding the club back
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in, That's where I want you to really
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start paying attention to what's going on
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right here in your swing. When your
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wrists and hands are relaxed at the top
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of the swing and there's no tension in
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them,
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all of the good things that you want to
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happen in your swing, the club shallowing
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out, the club face staying square, you're
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creating tons of lag, having a natural
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down cock. All of that stuff starts to
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happen automatically for you. You don't
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have to nor do you want to try and
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manipulate and create this position. So
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RST five step, look at video four, step
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four and start understanding how we start
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working on keeping your hands really,
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really soft. Take that thumb off the
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club. And all of a sudden, if you take
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your left thumb off the club, if you're a
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right handed golfer and start making soft
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swings, just holding onto the club with
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your left hand and video it. It's not
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going to do any good if you're not seeing
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what you're doing. So video this with
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your phone and look at it and watch what
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happens. And I promise you, you're going
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to start looking like this in no time at
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all. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
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