Russell Knox - Setup and Rotate
Russell Knox - Setup and Rotate
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Description
Russell Knox golf swing analysis. Learn how to rotate properly in your golf swing and protect your body by setting up properly.
Video Practice Points
- At address, make sure the back of your knee is over the center of your ankle.
- Rotate your shoulders perpendicular to the axis.
- Right heel down on the ground into impact.
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Hey everyone, This is RST instructor
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Chris Tyler. And welcome back to the
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weekly tour analysis, where we have
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Russell Knox, who just picked up his
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first victory on the PGA Tour at the HSBC
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this past weekend.
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So congratulations to Russell.
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This week, we are going to be focusing in
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on a consistent move in Russell's golf
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swing. And we're also going to be
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focusing in on a good way to protect your
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lead knee and your lead hip. So if you've
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been struggling with some pain in your
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lead hip or your lead knee, you want to
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pay close attention to today's review.
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Let's go ahead and get started.
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Okay guys, so here we are with Russell
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Knox this week. We are going to be
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talking a little bit about a consistent
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move that I want you to start to work
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into your own golf swings. We're going to
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talk a little bit about setup and then
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we're going to talk a little bit about
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impact as well. So there's three really
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key areas of the golf swing that we're
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going to focus on here.
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One thing that I want to address here is
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from the address position here when he's
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got an iron in his hand, you can see that
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he's got very little spacing between his
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hands and his thighs.
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Typically, what that's a byproduct of is
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usually having too much flex in the knees
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at the address position, where we would
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normally want the back of the knee to be
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right over the center of the ankle. So
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you can see that the back of his knee,
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it's a little tough to tell, and I drew
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that line a little bit on the bigger
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side.
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But from an anatomic standpoint, a
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biomechanics standpoint, what that's
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going to allow us to do, That's going to
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allow us to keep our weight into true
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balance and not get so sunk down into the
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quads. But true balance is really, It's
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one of those big myths in the golf swing,
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where we've always been taught to set up
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over the balls of our feet. And we've got
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some videos on the website that kind of
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go into the sciences about this.
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Um, but when we set up in true balance,
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Think of this green section as kind of
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like your money section here, where you
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want to have your weight at your address
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position, not forward to this, not behind
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this. Okay. If you can get your weight
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into that, into that section, Then you're
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going to be able to stay in balance
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throughout most of your golf swing if
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you're focusing on that. And it's also
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going to be a little bit easier for you
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to be able to load up your glute muscles.
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But aside from that, what happens is when
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you get too sunk down into your knees,
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what we typically would see is some
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roundness right here from the thoracic
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spine up.
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And you can see that the shoulders have a
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little bit more of a rolled or protracted
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appearance here, which in turn gets the
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hands a little bit closer to the body.
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So if you've looked on camera and you've
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noticed that, man, I've got some
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roundness here from my thoracic spine up,
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then check the amount of knee flex that
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you have. Make sure that you're not
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getting too sunk down into your knees.
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You can still, he's obviously over here
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with the driver. He's got his hands a
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little bit further away from him because
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of the length of the driver. But you can
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still see just a little bit of curvature
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there. Not an overwhelming amount, but
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just, again, just a little bit too much
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knee flex. And you'll see that he
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actually sinks down a little bit. See
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that little move there?
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So again, the point of that is just to
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make sure that you're getting yourself
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into a good neutral posture, getting
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yourself into good neutral balance at the
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starting point, because that's going to
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help us down in the hitting area.
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Because a lot of people think that, you
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know, I'm supposed to be athletic. I'm
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supposed to stay in the balls of my feet.
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And in turn, that's actually a very
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dangerous position down in the hitting
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area. So let's look at the rotation of
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the body here now. I'm going to go ahead
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and mark a line down the angle of his
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spine here.
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I'm going to try to be as close to
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perfect as I can here.
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So what we're looking to do in the golf
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swing is we're wanting to rotate our
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shoulders around our axis and keep that
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perpendicular. We want to keep our
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shoulders perpendicular to our spine. So
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what we're going to be looking for at the
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top of Russell's swing, okay, is that his
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shoulders have made a T, a perfect
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looking perpendicular T here to his
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spine. So let me draw these.
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So that's what we would look for, What
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the shoulders would look like at the top
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of the swing if he were rotating around
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his axis and not changing his spine
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angle. And he does an absolutely
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fantastic job of that. So you can see
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here into the takeaway, gets nice and
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wide, typical tour player takeaway.
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Then at the top of the swing,
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you're going to see that his shoulders
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are pretty well matching this line right
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here. Okay, so you see that he's
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maintained his spine angle.
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And the same thing here. So now see the
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shoulder line is perpendicular here to
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this line that I drew originally. That
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means he's maintaining his spine. So if
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you're seeing any sort of different look
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out of your shoulder line, then we need
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to take the club out of your hand. We
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need to work on rotating your body
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properly around your axis.
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Rotation is really one of those big
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things that allow amateurs to struggle so
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much in their golf swing because you're
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changing the angle of your spine. And
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when you change the angle of your spine,
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guess what? You're going to have to get
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it back to its original starting point to
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get the bat on the ball. So we always
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want to feel like we're rotating around
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our axis, keeping our shoulder line
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perpendicular to our spine.
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All right. So now down in the hitting
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area, this is the one move I want to talk
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about if you've been struggling with some
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hip and knee problems.
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This is where it can help you in a sense.
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We always talk a lot about the right
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foot, the position of the right foot,
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keeping it down on the ground, making
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sure that you're not driving up off onto
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the toes here, driving your knee towards
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your lead knee.
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And you're going to see that he actually
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does get rolled out to the outside part
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of his lead foot. But what I do want you
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to pay close attention to,
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okay, Is, you can see that the weight is
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predominantly centered on the lead foot,
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underneath his ankle joint. It would be
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over in that green section on the other
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side that I pointed out. You can see it
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over here on the downline perspective.
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And I would have a good face on view for
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us so we could look at this as well, but
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there's not really a lot of good videos
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on his golf swing out there. But notice
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that his weight before he starts to
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release the club is in that right back,
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in that green zone, on that left foot.
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And in turn, that's going to allow him to
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stay more in true balance. It's going to
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allow his central pivoting balancing
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joint to remain in his hip. If the weight
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were to stay forward into the ball of the
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foot, then you're moving the central
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balancing pivoting joint down to the
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knee. And that is very dangerous, very,
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very dangerous.
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So ideally what we would like to do is
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we'd like to have that left foot nice and
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flat to the ground. We'd like to have the
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weight centered right underneath that
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ankle joint. But again, there's a lot of
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momentum that can carry you to the
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outside part of the foot. Just make sure
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that you're using your glute muscles to
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help stabilize the lower half. And you'll
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start to avoid some of that common hip
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pain, some of that common knee pain. And
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we have some videos to help you out with
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that this week. So if you've been
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struggling with any of that stuff, first
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thing I want you to do is I want you to
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watch the Finding True Balance video.
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That's going to give you some further
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clarification on what it means to set up
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with a weight in that green section like
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I was talking about.
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Weight on the balls of your feet.
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That's a video that we're going to
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discuss some of the myths of the golf
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swing and give you some really good,
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solid information.
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And then fixing your setup. It's another
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video that a lot of our members get good,
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Good results with as far as giving you a
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detailed checklist to get yourself into a
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good, neutral posture, good balancing
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part, good stable lower half to start
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from. And then in turn, you're not having
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to work on getting a lot of band-aids in
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your swing. And then if you've been
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struggling with rotation, five minutes to
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master rotation. That's a good video
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that's going to give you kind of a chunky
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checkpoint list of things to work
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through.
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Start to rotate around your axis, just
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like Russell does here, and you'll be on
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your way to playing some really good,
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solid, consistent golf.
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Okay guys, So, any of those videos can be
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found to the Recommended Videos tab to
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the right-hand side of our video player
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on the website here. And if you have any
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questions, feel free to post those up and
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I hope you guys have a fantastic day.
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Let's get out there and play some great
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golf.
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