Bernhard Langer vs. Camilo Villegas
Bernhard Langer vs. Camilo Villegas
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Description
Bernhard Langer is nearly 58 years old and still averages almost 280 yards off the tee. In this video, I'll show you how to prioritize the 3 key components for clubhead speed so that you can hit longer shots no matter how old you are.
Video Practice Points
- Stay wide as long as you can during the takeaway and backswing
- Make rotation your first priority in the swing unless you have limited range of motion
- Rotation, width and leverage are the key components to speed in your golf wing
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So if you've been spending a lot of your
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time lately telling yourself that you're
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getting much too old to still bomb the
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golf ball, then you want to pay close
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attention to this week's breakdown of
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Bernhard Langer's golf swing. This guy's
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57 years old and is still pounding the
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golf ball nearly 280 yards on average. Hi
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guys, I'm Rotary Swing Instructor Chris
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Tyler, And this week, I'm going to be
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showing you three critical moves that
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Bernhard Langer does in his golf swing,
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and I'm also going to be comparing him to
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the 32-year-old Camilo Villegas. You
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don't want to miss this, let's go ahead
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and get started.
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It's pretty safe to say that. All of us
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have said it at one point or another in
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our golfing career that we want to be
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able to hit it further. We want more
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consistency and we want to hit it
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further. So this week, we're going to
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focus in on three critical areas of the
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golf swing that are going to help you
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understand, no matter what age group
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you're in, If you prioritize things in a
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way, you can still maximize efficiency
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for a long time. And you can still hit it
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just as far as Bernhard does at 57,
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almost 58 years old, hitting it 280 yards
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on average.
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All right, so let's go ahead and take a
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look here. I got the Young Bucks on the
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right, so I got Camilo on the right and
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I've got the old timers on the left-hand
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side here. I'm going to draw a couple of
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key lines for us as we start to move
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through the review. So you can really
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understand how each player works the
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entire body throughout the process here
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to maintain efficiency based off of what
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they have to offer in the golf swing.
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Now, Bernhard Langer is one of those
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players that takes his fitness extremely
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serious. He is working out all the time.
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He's always been one of those players
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that spends a lot of time on his fitness,
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so he's been able to maintain the three
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ingredients that really help him with
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efficiency.
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All right, so let's go ahead and take a
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look here into the takeaway.
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I've drawn the tush line here and I've
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drawn a right knee line. All right, I'm
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going to go ahead and look at both
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players here into the takeaway. You're
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going to see that they've got their hands
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out in front of their chest.
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You can see that the center of the chest
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on both players is right, in line with
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the hands, and that the right arm is nice
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and straight. Okay, So you see how the
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right arm is nice and straight here, and
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both players have rotated about 45
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degrees. So that's talking about the
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first two ingredients to efficiency.
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That's rotation and that's width. Now we
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call the right arm the governor of width.
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We want to be able to stay as wide as
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possible going back with the golf club,
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no matter what age group you're in. So if
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you're starting to get up there in the
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years and you're not able to rotate, or
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you're losing some of your range of
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motion, one of the ways to make up for
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that is to make sure that you've got a
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ton of width. And we have a great video
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on the website called the straight right
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arm to turn video. That is a phenomenal
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video that's going to teach you how to
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prioritize things in a way. It's going to
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help you rotate but it's also going to
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give you a lot of width in your golf
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swing. So definitely check that video out
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no matter what age group you're in.
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All right, so let's go ahead and take a
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look up here as we work up into the top
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part of the golf swing. And I want you to
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notice both players here at the top part
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of their golf swing. You can see that
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they've still maintained a lot of width.
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So their right hand or I'm sorry, their
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right arm has got a little bit of flex in
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it, probably about 80 to 90 degrees for
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both players.
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The left arm is extremely straight at the
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top of the swing, and both hands are
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extended away from the shoulder and the
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right ear. That's imperative for width.
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So you want to make sure again that you
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have no flexing in that left arm. If you
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tend to have a lot of breakdown in the
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left arm, you might want to look to see
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if you've got too much right arm flexion.
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So you want to get to that kind of that
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sweet spot, to where you can still keep
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the hands as extended away from the right
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shoulder, the right ear as possible at
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the top part of the swing. All right, so
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let's just focus on the Young Bucks on
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the way down here. And we're going to
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focus on a critical move that helps with
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the third component of efficiency, and
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that's going to be leverage. Now leverage
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can be established through lag and
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release. It can also be leveraged through
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or you can build leverage by pulling
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power out of the ground, Using the lower
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body to move, power up the kinetic chain.
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And you're going to see a very common
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thing with younger players is that
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they're going to make more of a squat
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move. Okay, So you can see here. He
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starts to squat down and he gets really
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over into that left side and now he's
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really pulling the power out of the
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ground. Now, one of the things that we
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would not condone at rotary Swing is this
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right foot, way off the ground as the
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hands get down to the hitting area. That
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right foot is a trail side push. And a
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lot of players that try to do this squat
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move. Or haven't really kind of perfected
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the idea how they're going to control
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from the lead side of the body. You'll
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see that this right knee would break
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through that line. So if you're watching
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your golf swing, You would see that your
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right knee would be way through this
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line, and you would also notice that your
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hips would be coming forward to where you
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would be coming off the tush line. And
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those two things can really start to slow
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the club down, and it can create a mess
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for consistency. So if you're one of
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those squatters out there, one of those
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young bucks that's really trying to
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leverage the ground, make sure that you
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understand how to look at your golf
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swing, How to evaluate things? And make
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sure that if you're going to use the
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trail side to push the hips or help the
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hips, that you can still control things
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from the left side of the body. That's
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critical no matter what age group is that
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you still want to be able to control the
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hips. You don't want to turn into a hip
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spinner. Trust me, that's a big issue.
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All right, so you're going to see over
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here with Bernard, he's going to not use
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nearly as much squat.
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Let me go ahead and move these lines off
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the screen.
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All right, you're going to see that he
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doesn't make any sort of drastic
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squatting move. All right, But what he's
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doing at this particular point of the
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golf swing is you can see that this left
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knee had a lot of bend to it. And now as
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he's working down in the hitting area, if
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I had a face on perspective, you can see
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that his left leg has gone to a very
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straight position. All right, his left
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leg right there and now it's stalling the
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hips and now he's released the golf club.
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And you can see that he had a good amount
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of lag as the hands are approaching in
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front of the right thigh, and that he's
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pulling that left leg to a straight
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position. We have that video on the
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website, the straight left legged impact
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video. That's another good video that's
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going to help you understand how the
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lower body works in the downward move.
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You can see just a little bit of push
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from the trail side here off of Bernhard,
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where it's got his right knee poking
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through there. He's done a fairly good
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job of keeping the hips back, but you can
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see with this movement of the hips
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forward, his spine angle has actually
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straightened. Now that's where I get back
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into the rotational aspect. Because of
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the fact that Bernhard has got himself
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into a little bit older of an era here,
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all right, that's out of respect for you
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old timers.
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You can notice here that he's got a lot
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less side bend than Camilo does.
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Okay, So you can see Camilo's got a lot
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of side bend here where it's going to put
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a lot of compression on the spine.
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Now as a safety move here for Bernhard,
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He's allowed his spine to go more
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vertical in the hitting area because of
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the fact that that's not going to put a
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lot of compression on the back. So that's
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a good way for you to understand that,
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okay, he's taken a little bit of the
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rotation aspect out of there. He's not
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really trying to jam down through the
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hitting area. He's stalled the lower body
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properly and he's releasing it through
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lag and release.
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He's got great action with the hands
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through the hitting area. So again, The
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whole point of today was to talk to you
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guys about how to prioritize things, no
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matter what age group you're in. So if
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you're getting up there in years and you
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feel like your range of motion is really
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shutting down, you really want to protect
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and preserve the body, which is super
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important to all of us at Rotary Swing,
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is make sure that you understand how to
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prioritize things. So with leverage and
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rotation, all right, so make sure you
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understand how important those are to
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you. Put those to use. Get out there and
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play some great golf. And I do want to
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give you guys a heads up. This week is we
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got a great video that's geared towards
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the old timers that are really trying to
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maximize a lot of speed in their game.
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Chuck, our founder at Rotary Swing, has
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put this great video together with some
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great drills in it. Definitely want to
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check that video out and get out there
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and bomb it. Keep bombing it no matter
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what age you are and play some great
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golf. All right, guys, I look forward to
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working more with you in the future and I
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hope you have
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