Thorbjorn Olesen - Perfect your takeaway
Thorbjorn Olesen - Perfect your takeaway
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Description
See 2 key moves that Thorbjorn Olesen uses to build a picture perfect takeaway position every single time.
Video Practice Points
- Shift your weight first.
- Rotate your body.
- Keep arms relaxed.
- Keep the trail knee flexed when rotating the body.
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Hey, Rotary Swing Golfers. This is RST
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instructor Chris Tyler, and we are back
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with this week's tour analysis on Tor
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Bjorn Olesen, Who just picked up his
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third European Tour victory at the Alfred
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Dunhill Lynx Championship this past
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weekend.
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And we're going to be doing something a
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little fun this week. We're going to be
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focusing in on building a good, proper
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tour pro-like takeaway position every
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single time that you play golf. And I
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know a lot of us are starting to approach
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our winter months, and this is a perfect
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time to take it on. And I'm going to show
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you exactly how Olesen does a really good
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job with weight shift and establishing a
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lot of good width and rotation early on,
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which in turn he can use for a lot of
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great power, a lot of great speed in the
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downswing. So if you've been struggling
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with your takeaway position, let's go
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ahead and get started.
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All right, So I know a lot of us are fast
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approaching those ugly winter months
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where we won't be able to play or
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practice much golf, But I think this is a
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perfect time to promote a little bit of a
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challenge back to you at home and really
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get you to start working on some really
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important parts of the golf swing. And
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we're going to focus on takeaway this
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week. And takeaway, as silly as it
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sounds, and I know a lot of us struggle
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with this particular position,
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takeaway sets the golf swing off on the
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right tone. It allows us to be able to
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shift our weight properly. It allows us
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to start to load up our big muscles in
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our body that we can in turn use for club
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head speed. And it also establishes a lot
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of width.
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Width is extremely important to establish
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very early on in the golf swing. Because
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what we want to look for at the top of
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the swing down is we want the arc to be
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able to narrow.
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Once we get ready to start to release the
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club, then the arc will start to widen
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back up. So it's a very common swing
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shape that you'll see with all golf pros.
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And it's the wide narrow wide swing
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shape. It's a video that's well liked
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around the website. It gives you a good
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clear indication of what wide narrow wide
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means. That video will be over here to
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the recommended videos tab, just to the
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right hand side of the player. Just go
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ahead and click that tab. All the videos
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mentioned here will go ahead and start to
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populate on that side. But more
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importantly, What I want to focus on is
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getting the golf swing started off on the
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right tone, so that you have the ability
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to be able to narrow the arc from the top
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of the swing down, which in turn you can
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turn into lag.
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And lag then is going to be a big part of
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your speed when you start to release it.
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So let's get busy here. Let's look at
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some of the takeaway positions here and
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get you on a good starting page with your
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golf swing. So from a face-on
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perspective, what I want you to pay close
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attention to, I'm going to draw this line
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up, a very common line you'll see us use
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from an instructional standpoint.
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I'm going to draw that line up right from
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the center of the ankle, straight up. And
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you're going to notice this little bit of
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space between the right thigh and this
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line. Okay, so just about the knee up,
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you'll see this little bit of space,
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about an inch space or so.
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And I also want you to pay very close
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attention to the buttons on his shirt and
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the club head here. So let's go ahead and
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mark that.
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So club head and then the buttons on his
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shirt.
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And I want you to pay very close
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attention to how the buttons on his shirt
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and his club head rotate at the same
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rate. But I also want you to pay close
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attention to this little small gap that
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we have between the right thigh and that
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right hip line.
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So you're going to see a small shift.
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Okay, and now notice, now that you see
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the weight shifting into that right side,
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now watch the club head and the buttons
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on his shirt work together.
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Okay, so this is the particular part of
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the golf swing that a lot of people
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struggle with. And why is that?
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Well, because we're moving from the wrong
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parts of our body.
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We tend to try to move the golf club back
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with just our hands and our arms. And in
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turn, we get a ton of wrist set. And all
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that's really doing is loading up your
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hands and your arms first in your golf
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swing, which in turn now is going to
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start to make you want to fire them from
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the top of the swing down, which can rob
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you of speed, it can get you into a
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flippy impact position. So you can see
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the kind of cause and effect.
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Most all tour pros that you watch on TV,
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men's and ladies golf, you'll see that
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they start very wide into their takeaway.
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Now the big moving parts of the big key
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components of that are weight shift
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and rotation.
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Okay, So the only things that really
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started to happen in this golf swing was
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that he shifted his weight and he rotated
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his body.
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Okay, so he made a one inch shift. So you
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can see he's pushed up right against this
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right hip line. And he rotated his body
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about 45 degrees.
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Now, one of the big misconceptions that
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I'm going to show you from a down the
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line perspective is that we want to just
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shift our hips laterally.
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Okay,
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in a sense, yes, for some of you that
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have battled with pelvic instability or
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allowing your hips to over rotate. Yeah,
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we would coach you from an instructional
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standpoint and say, no, we don't want you
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to feel any rotation. But the hips are
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making a very dynamic movement in the
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golf swing. They're not just shifting.
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They're not just rotating. They're
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working together. But it's important that
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they maintain stability throughout that
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process.
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So what you'll notice here from a down
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the line perspective,
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you're going to see that the hips rotate
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just a fraction, maybe five or 10 degrees
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or so.
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But most importantly, what he's done is
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he's maintained the right knee flex, and
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he's kept his weight driving into that
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right heel.
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That's the most important part for
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stability in the lower half. That's
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starting to get some engagement in the
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glute muscles, which are going to be
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critical for stability, and also getting
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the hips going in the other direction to
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start your downswing.
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So again, what do we want to focus on to
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get into this position? All we really
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want to do is just focus on shifting our
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weight and rotating our body. Maybe
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maintain a little bit of that right knee
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flex as you're starting to rotate your
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body about 45 degrees, and you will start
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to develop a perfect takeaway position
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every single time. And there's a good
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process to start to work your way through
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this. I always start without a golf club.
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I always go into a good setup position.
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I'll cross my arms over my shoulders.
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I'll make a small shift to the right
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using a mirror or using a camera, and
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then I'll go ahead and rotate my body on
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that right leg, making sure that I feel
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about 80% of my weight in that right
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side. I haven't shifted too far laterally
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where I'm busted through this line, and
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then I feel what my body is really trying
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to tell me, okay? I start to feel the
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tension in my core and my midsection.
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Once I do maybe 50 to 100 reps of that,
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then I will add the golf club back to the
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mix, but I will flip the club over and go
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to the light end.
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Every time we flip the club over and we
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go to the heavy end, we start to put
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momentum in it. It's very difficult for
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us to maintain kinesthetic awareness
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within the body of what we're trying to
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achieve, and then you're just kind of
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like a dog chasing your own tail.
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Once you've done enough reps with the
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light end of the club, maybe try to get
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300 or 500 reps of that, flip the club
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over, and then start to do really good
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solid practice sessions with just some
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weight shift and rotation, And you are
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going to start to establish more width
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and a perfect takeaway position faster
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than you think.
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All right, so that's our game plan. I'm
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going to challenge you guys this
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offseason to start getting your golf
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swing set off on the right tone. I want
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you guys to focus on shifting your weight
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and rotating your body. We've got some
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videos that can help you out with that.
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We've got move one, the takeaway video,
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which is really kind of the starting or
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the jumping off point of what RST is
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really all about.
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Then we also have five minutes to a
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perfect takeaway, and we also have
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wide narrow wide swing shape. If you've
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really battled with rotation as a whole
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in your golf swing, keep the right arm
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straight to turn. It is another fantastic
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video that will help you out with this
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process.
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All right, guys, so I wish you all the
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best. Let's get out there and get a good
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takeaway position really ingrained, and
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then we will be setting our golf swing
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off on the right tone, and be well on our
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way to playing some of our best golf next
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season. I wish you all the best, and make
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it a great day.
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