Matt Jones Golf Swing Analysis
Matt Jones Golf Swing Analysis
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Description
In this video, I’ll show you 3 essential swing moves required for a consistent, on-plane swing. You’ll see a side-by-side swing comparison between PGA winner Matt Jones and RST founder Chuck Quinton to demonstrate the 3 moves and how swinging off plane requires unneeded compensations. Get the consistency you crave. Check out this video now to stay on plane!
Video Practice Points
- Focus on ingraining body movements to create a swing plane
- REF = Rotation, Elevation, Flexion
- Prioritize the swing properly for consistent golf
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Hey everyone, this is Rotary Swing
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Instructor Chris Tyler. This week the
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Aussies are back at it again with a big
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victory at the Shell Houston Open. Matt
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Jones gets a big victory over Matt Kuchar
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in a first hole playoff. This week, I'm
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going to be talking about swing plane and
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three critical areas of the golf swing
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that we need to focus on in order to
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create a proper swing plane. I'm also
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going to help get over a lot of the myths
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of instruction out there and help you
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build a consistent golf swing on your
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own. So let's go ahead and get started.
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Alright, so this week, when we take a
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look at Matt Jones golf swing, we're
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going to focus in on Swing plane. And
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three of the critical areas. That him and
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a lot of the other golf pros on tour
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really do, very, very well in order to
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achieve a consistent style of golf swing.
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Now, that's one of the big things that a
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lot of people come to the website for is.
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They're always trying to build
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consistency, and they're always trying to
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create efficiency. And if we shift the
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focus away from what some of the poor
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instruction has really delivered over the
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past few years. As far as aiming the golf
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club in certain directions and never
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really giving you the hows or whys, If we
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focus primarily on three really key
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movements within the body and ingrain
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those movements, then what we're going to
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do is we're going to be able to play
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consistent golf from one day to the next.
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Ideally, if we focus on body movements
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alone, the golf club will consequentially
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move into a proper swing plane. And
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that's one of the big ideas that I want
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to pass along is that swing plane is
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completely consequential to the movements
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that we create within the body. Alright
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so we're going to focus on three really
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key areas this week. It's going to be
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rotation, elevation and flexion. You can
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see over here on the right hand side of
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the screen that I've written the acronym
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out and you're going to hear that acronym
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around the website rotation, elevation
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and flexion. So that's what that means.
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And those are the three really key areas
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that we need to spend some time. And once
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you focus in on those, and you really
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ingrain those new movement patterns,
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you're going to be able to play a little
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bit more consistent golf. So let's go
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ahead and take a look at Matt Jones golf
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swing and see some of the differences
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that he has. But he still has a very good
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golf swing so I will start off by saying
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that.
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So let's go ahead and take a look at Matt
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in relationship to the model swing here.
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And let's get them both into the takeaway
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position.
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Alright, so you can see here that Matt's
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golf club is tracing just a little bit
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underneath the plane line. And you can
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also notice that he's pushed his left arm
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across his chest a little bit early on,
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which has caused his right arm to break.
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And it's the reason why this club's a
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little bit flatter. Now, if he were to
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continue creating all this momentum in
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the golf club, he's going to swing on a
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much flatter swing plane. But he does
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make some adjustments in his backswing.
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But I do want you to notice the
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commonalities here. The commonality here
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is that he's created a good 45 degrees of
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shoulder turn, where in our model swing,
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he's also created a good 45 degrees of
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shoulder turn. The club is tracing up
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this plane line. Now, the only difference
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here is that Chuck has added a little bit
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of elevation here, rather than pushing
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the left arm across his chest. Alright,
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so he's added that little bit of
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elevation to help create the width in the
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arc, and that's a big, big key ingredient
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as far as trying to create a proper swing
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plane of shoulder elevation. There's a
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good video on the website in the
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backswing section called Understanding
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Shoulder Elevation. So that'll really
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kind of clarify what proper shoulder
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elevation looks like. And that's just a
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simple upward movement, Three to four
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inch upward movement of the arms. That
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happens as a gradual process through the
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takeaway and in the backswing. And it's
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also a variable. So some people require
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more elevation that want to use the body
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less, and some people require less
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elevation. That want to use the body a
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little bit more. In the downswing and so
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on. Alright, so that's really. The only
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big difference here is that Matt has kind
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of pushed his left arm across his chest,
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which in turn has now, he's lacking a
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little bit of elevation. He's a little
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bit on a flatter plane, but he's going to
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make some good moves here as he moves
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into the top part of his golf swing. So
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you can see that the right arm is
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starting to flex and he's adding the
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elevation late. Okay, so he's coupling
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the right arm flexion and the elevation,
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and in turn, you can see that he's still
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hit all three requirements. And then got
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this club pretty much dead on plane. So
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if I were to back him up, here just a
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couple of frames, you can see that that
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shaft is parallel to our plane line. And
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then he just continues to rotate to the
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top part of the golf swing, so he's
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pretty much dead on plane.
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So if we take a look at the model golf
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swing here in relationship,
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alright so we go up to the top part of
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the golf swing here we are. You can see
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that. The difference here is that Matt's
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hands and arms are a little bit deeper in
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relationship to his right shoulder, where
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Chuck's hands are right up over the right
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shoulder. And his club is also on plane.
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So because he didn't push the golf club
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back early with his left arm, he hasn't
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gotten the golf club as deep. So now he's
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not going to have to work as hard and
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race the body and rotate the body to move
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the hands and arms back in front of him.
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Where Matt is going to have to do that,
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he's going to have to make some sort of
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recovery style move. And as far as if we
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look at the three key components here,
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alright so rotation, elevation and
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flexion, we've gotten good solid rotation
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out of Matt Jones, he's made a big wide
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turn.
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He's got good flexion of the right elbow,
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he's got about 90 degrees, maybe even 95
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degrees of flexion, still been able to
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keep the left arm nice and straight.
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And then you can also see that his elbow
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is at the base of the peck. And the same
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thing applies over here to Chuck on the
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model swing is that his elbow is right at
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the base of his peck. He's got about 90
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degrees of flexion and his elevation, you
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know, I'm sorry, his rotation is spot on.
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So they both hit all three requirements
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in order to achieve swing plane. One is
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just prioritized a little bit different.
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And that's another way, like I said,
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That's how we're going to create.
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Consistent golf is making sure that those
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three particular movement patterns are
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created so you can have this,
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So if we were to take Matt Jones down
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into impact, let's take a look here.
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And because he had the hands and arms
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deep, as I said, He's going to have to
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work really hard with the body to get it
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out of the way, to make room for the
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hands and arms. And you can see here
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that,
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let me get an arrow on the screen for us,
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you can see that his chest is open just a
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little bit more to the target.
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You can see his chest is facing more out
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towards the target, where if I were to
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take Chuck down into the impact zone, all
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right, you can see that he is nice and
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square here where his shoulders are
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square, hips are open about 30 to 40
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degrees. All right. So those are just
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reactions to the actual top part of the
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golf swing there. And Matt has a great
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golf swing. He's been able to take and
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build a consistent move. And he's focused
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in on the three key areas that we spoke
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about here. All right. So if you want to
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get out there and you want to build a
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consistent golf swing, we need to shift
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the focus off trying to aim the golf club
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into certain areas. We need to focus in
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on three very key movements. And that's
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rotation, elevation, and flexion. And
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there's a couple of good videos on the
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website. I really want you to kind of go
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in order and make sure that you really
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ingrain those movement patterns first
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before you try to build this plane. So if
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you were to go to five minutes to master
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rotation,
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take a look at that video. Really kind of
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build a sound rotation. And then go to
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five minutes to a perfect backswing
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checkpoints video. We're going to outline
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the overall movements of elevation and
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flexion and help you get into a good spot
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with the hands and the arms. Because the
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hands and the arm movements are very,
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very simple once you've learned elevation
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and flexion. And then you couple that
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with rotation. And there we go. We're in
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a perfect swing plane position every
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time.
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All right, guys. So let's go ahead. Let's
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put this to use. Let's use these three
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key components to build a more consistent
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golf swing. I look forward to working
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more with you guys in the future and I
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hope you have a great day.
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