5 Minutes to the Perfect Golf Backswing
5 Minutes to the Perfect Golf Backswing
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Description
Once you've mastered the takeaway using our "5 Minutes to the Perfect Takeaway" video, you're ready to begin the process of building the perfect top of the backswing position that even Tiger Woods would envy. Completing the backswing, in many ways, is simply continuing the movements that we did during the takeaway. In this instructional video, we'll introduce right elbow flexion, the position of the right elbow at the top and the internal rotation of the left arm (all for right handed golfers - if you're a lefty, simply switch right for left).
Video Practice Points
- You must completely master the setup and takeaway before moving on to the backswing lesson
- Extend your arms and raise them from belt-high to the bottom of your chest
- At the top of the elevation, fold your right arm about 90°
- Grab your left thumb in your right hand and repeat elevation & flexion
- Once elevation & flexion are mastered, add in posture & rotation
- Keep the elbow pit facing away and up, never toward you
- When movement sequence is grooved add the club back in - hold it upside down at first
- To put it all together, start in setup posture and go through the drills again
- Next, start in setup and move to the top of the swing in a single motion, first with the club upside down, then held normally
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Once you've mastered the setup and the
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takeaway, it's time to get us all the way
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to the top of the backswing. If you
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haven't mastered the setup and takeaway
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yet, you're not ready for this video, do
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the right thing, master the takeaway
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first, and then come back for this video
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once you've mastered that piece, because
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you need to have a perfect takeaway to
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set up a backswing to make it simple to
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get to the top in the right positions.
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I'm going to walk you through the exact
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same progression that I use when I teach
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students in person, so that you can get
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the exact same experience and understand
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exactly how. You need to work through the
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backswing to get into a perfect position
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at the top every time without any
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problems.
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There's two techniques that I use. The
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first one is progression or stacking.
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What that means is I'm going to make
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things really simple at first, and then
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each time we master a simple little piece
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of the backswing, I'm going to stack
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another piece on there to make it more
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challenging.
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The second piece is I'm going to use
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isolationism, and what that means is I'm
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going to take all the distractions away
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at first. There's going to be no club, no
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ball, none of that, so we're really just
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focusing on movement because that's
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really what we're trying to do. We're not
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trying to hit a perfect golf shot or have
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a perfect contact or impact position yet.
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We're trying to learn a new movement
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pattern, and that's critical so that you
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take the what position the clubface is in
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and realize all you're trying to do is
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create a new movement pattern, and that's
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it. And so I'm going to show you exactly
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how we do that. So the first thing I'm
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going to do is get rid of the golf club.
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So don't need that yet, that's just a
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distraction, okay? So here's the first
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thing that we're going to do. Before we
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actually start the movement, I want you
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to understand a concept, and this is
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critical that you understand this because
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this will affect your vision or what you
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conceive the golf swing to be. And once
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you understand what your preconceptions
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are and how they may be flawed a little
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bit, you'll understand why people end up
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in the typical positions that we see
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every day on the lesson tee. So the first
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thing I want you to think of is that
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there are, when you're looking at the
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golf swing from down the line, there are
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two dimensions basically.
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You're going to think of vertical
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movement in the golf swing and around
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movement, rotation. So when I use, when I
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demonstrate this for my students, what
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I'll typically do is put a shaft down the
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line in the middle of my body here, and
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tell them that anything behind this shaft
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would be in the depth dimension, and then
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anything moving straight up and down
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would be in this vertical dimension.
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What most people go wrong with the
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backswing is that they try and move their
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arms and club into this depth dimension.
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And so when they do that, that's how you
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end up really flat and deep and in a bad
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position at the top. What you need to
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think of is that you never move your arms
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into this depth dimension.
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All the arms are doing is moving in this
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vertical dimension, and that's it. Now
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technically that's not exactly what
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happens, but that's what 99.9% of the
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students need to focus on and feel in
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their golf swings. So what you're going
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to do is to get into this depth
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dimension, because obviously the club's
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going to end up behind us, that is
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handled through rotation. So now as I
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turn, that moves my arms,
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starts to move them into this depth
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dimension. It's done by rotation, not by
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me taking my arms and swinging them
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across my body. That's going to end up
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with a flat swing. So what your arms do
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is that they feel as if they're only
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moving straight up and down in this
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vertical dimension.
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And as I'm doing this, this is when our
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first drills are going to start, it feels
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like I'm just moving my hands straight up
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and down over my head. That's it. They're
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not moving this way, they're moving
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straight up and down.
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So when I put these two together,
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vertical movement and depth movement,
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rotation, here's what it looks like. So
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I'm going to only do vertical movement
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movement while rotating.
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And when you put the two together, you
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start to create a golf swing and a swing
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plane. But all I'm doing is this with
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this.
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When you start to understand now is that
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my hands and arms always feel like
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they're out on this side of the shaft,
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never into this deeper dimension. They
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feel like they're going straight up and
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down in front of my body while my body
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turns.
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So that's the concept of the golf swing,
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of the backswing, is that your arms are
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always on this side of the shaft. You
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never move them into this dimension. They
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do get there. You can see that my hands
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are now behind the shaft, but they got
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moved there by the rotation of my body.
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Okay, so that's the first concept that I
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want you to understand. Now let's get to
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work doing some drills. It's very
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important that you follow along with me
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and go through the drills with me. It
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doesn't do you any good to just sit here
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and watch this video. I need you to get
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up out of your chair and follow along
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with me because this is important. So the
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first thing we're going to do, we're
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going to isolate down to the simplest
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movements that we can create during the
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backswing. And that is what we call
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shoulder elevation in the backswing. And
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it's very little.
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This is how much my arms are going to
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move. I'm starting them at belt high and
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moving them up about to the base of my
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chest, where the bottom of my elbows just
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below the bottom of my pectoral muscle.
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Tiny amount of movement vertical. You'll
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notice that my hands are staying straight
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in front of my sternum and my buttons on
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my shirt.
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And that's it.
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From this dimension, I'm standing
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straight up. Hands are about belt high.
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And they're elevating to the bottom of my
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chest. This is what happens during the
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backswing.
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So once you can do this,
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we're ready to add the next piece in. Now
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a lot of people, if you're going to be
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doing this, we're in trouble. So it's
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just straight up and down. Vertical
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movement only.
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Now what I want you to do is move your
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hands to the base of your chest and then
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fold your right arm. Notice that my elbow
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and my shoulder are in alignment. And
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right now my wrist is in alignment.
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Later on, we're going to add a little bit
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of rotation. But for right now,
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elevation, flexion, is how you're going
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to learn the basic movements of the arms.
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This is it.
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From down the line,
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elevation, flexion. Notice that I didn't
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collapse my right arm, because when we
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add the left hand in here in a second,
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that would cause my left arm to fold. So
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I'm just going here, a little bit of
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flexion. Not a lot of movement.
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I'm going to grab my left thumb and I'm
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going to fold my right arm.
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This is the vast majority of what's
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happening in the backswing.
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Notice that as I'm doing this, notice
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that my left wrist is flat and
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perpendicular to the ground. This would
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be parallel. This is perpendicular.
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As I fold my right arm, notice that my
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left wrist is now on an inclined plane.
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It's at an angle.
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This is because I'm allowing my left arm
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to rotate slightly as I go back. This
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will set the club on plane. If I didn't
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do this, the club should have to be too
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steep.
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So elevation, flexion, and now my hand
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would be on plane as I let that rotate.
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Notice that my right elbow is still in
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front of my shoulder and the left elbow
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is above the right elbow.
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The other critical piece here is to
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notice what I call the right elbow pit.
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My elbow pits at address and neutral
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joint alignment would face straight away
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from me.
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Not in like this. That's not good
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posture. That's not normal. Everybody's
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elbows face out this way if we took all
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the muscles off you.
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So as I elevate, my arms come across to
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the center. There's a little bit of
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internal rotation, but we want to try and
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keep this right elbow pit always facing
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out away from us. That's going to be very
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critical when we get into the rest of the
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backswing.
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So elevation, grab the left thumb,
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flexion, and we've got a great backswing.
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Now as I mentioned, there's going to be a
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little bit of rotation here. We're not
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going to worry about this so much for
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now. Just here, get that elbow and
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shoulder in alignment.
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From down the line, we've got elevation,
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flexion.
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Notice that there's not a great deal of
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bend in my right arm. I want to feel like
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I have a lot of wit and my hands are out
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away from me. I'm not trying to rip my
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thumb back into my shoulder. It's here,
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and that's it.
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That's the basic movement of the arms,
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okay? So now what we're going to do, once
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you can do that correctly, and watch
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yourself in a mirror that you look just
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like I did there,
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now what we're going to do is we're going
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to stack another piece on there.
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So what we're going to do is we're going
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to do rotation with our elevation and
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flexion.
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Now,
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because you should have already mastered
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your setup by now, you should know how to
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hinge from the hip and get into the right
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position. And you should have already
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done five minutes to perfect rotation, so
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I shouldn't have to tell you how to
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rotate at this point.
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Rotate to the top,
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and now I'm in the right position. Stand
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up again,
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elevation, flexion,
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posture,
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rotation.
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That's it. This is how you check your
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backswing every time.
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Stand straight up, elevation, flexion,
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get into your posture,
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rotation.
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Notice that my elbow is still in front of
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my shoulder. I didn't do anything with my
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arms when I added rotation. I just
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transported them as a unit with my torso
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rotation. That's how your arms get moved
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into that depth dimension that I was
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talking about earlier.
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If you find that you do this and your arm
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looks like this,
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you've let this elbow drift away from
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you.
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And so what you need to imagine is that
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I've drilled a bolt into your arm. It
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allows it to move up and down, but it
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doesn't allow it to move this way. It
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doesn't allow it to move away from the
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body. It's only moving in that vertical
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dimension, not the depth dimension.
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If you find that you're here and your
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elbow just moves out a little bit, that's
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where that little bit of rotation of this
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part of your arm comes in.
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A lot of you will find that it's really
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normal for you to get here and your elbow
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pit wants to face back at you. As we get
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into the rest of the backswing, what
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we'll see is that as I'm going back, I
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want that to face away from me.
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And at this point, it should feel like
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it's facing the sky. It should never feel
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like it's rotated in.
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If it's facing the sky, my elbow can fold
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up.
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If it's facing this way, my elbow is
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going to fold in and move out away from
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me and get that flying right elbow. So
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it's important to keep that elbow pit
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facing away.
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And now we're in a great position at the
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top, okay? So that's the first piece. If
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you do this correctly, you take the time
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to go through these little steps that
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I've done,
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elevation, flexion, rotation,
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you'll know what it looks like and feels
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like to be in the perfect position at the
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top of the swing every single time. So
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now we're going to challenge you a little
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bit more.
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Now what I want you to do is go ahead and
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pick up a golf club, but I want you to
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flip it upside down. The reason for that
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is there's a tremendous amount of weight
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even though it doesn't seem like it. Once
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you start moving this around in space,
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there's a lot of inertia. As it builds
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momentum, it's going to want to act on
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your wrist joints and get you to move out
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of position.
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You're also attuned to what the club head
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feels like to you at the top of your
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swing, what you're used to. What you're
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used to probably isn't right, but you're
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going to want to settle back into those
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old movement patterns. We want to create
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new movement patterns, which means we
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need to break some old habits, and we
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need to start with baby steps, okay? So
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now we're going to make it a little bit
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more challenging.
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Hands are still in front of the center of
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my chest.
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Elevation, flexion, and let's see if we
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can keep everything else the same. If
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it's not, throw the club down and go back
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to doing it with just your arms until you
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can do that exactly right every time.
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Then we go elevation, flexion,
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posture,
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rotation.
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Same thing here.
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Elevation, flexion,
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posture,
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rotation. Perfect position at the top is
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all we've got to do to get there.
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Once you master that, this is going to
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take a while. You need to be patient with
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this because you're going to do it
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incorrectly. It's taken me lots and lots
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of reps to do it. The goal of these five
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-minute series is to get you to do these
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same movements over and over and over
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again at least five minutes a day. If you
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can put in 10, 15, 20, or 30, that's
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excellent. In five minutes, you should at
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least be able to start making progress on
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your golf swing.
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Once you start getting that comfortable
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where you have it with the shaft upside
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down, flip it into the normal position.
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This is where things get tricky.
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So now what we're going to do,
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same thing.
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I messed up there.
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Elevation, flexion, posture,
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rotation. Then we should see what it
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looks like and feels like to be at the
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top of the swing. Now you're going to
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notice that club is going to feel a
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little bit heavier.
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You're going to notice how it wants to
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move your hands and wrists out of
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position. It's very important that you
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take your time and move very, very
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slowly.
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Once you've done this enough, you're
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going to start out with just your arms.
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You may need to do that for the first
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week until you can get just your arms
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correct.
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Then add the distraction of a golf club
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turned upside down.
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Maybe that'll take you another week. For
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some of you, it might take five minutes.
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Once you can do it correctly, that's all
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that matters.
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Then you can flip the club back into its
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normal position and start working from
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there.
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Now, once we know what it feels like to
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be in the right position, here's what we
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want to try and do. We want to stack all
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of these things together and move to the
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top of the swing in one motion from a
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setup position. We're not quite ready
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yet, just yet. So what we're going to do
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now, we're going to start out in our
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posture and do our elevation and flexion
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and rotate.
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We want to do this enough until we get it
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right every time and can do it from our
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setup position. So that's the next little
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evolution here of our drills. The
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progression here is to start from setup.
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Now, once we've got the setup feeling, we
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know what it feels like to be at the top.
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We know what the arm movement feels. It
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just feels vertical. It doesn't feel like
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it's moving across.
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Now what we're going to do is try and
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glue it all together.
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Set up.
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Get in your posture.
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And all I want you to try and do, if your
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takeaway is already mastered, which it
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should be if you're watching this video,
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we're going to try and get from here to
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the top. And I don't want you to think so
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much about how to do it because your
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takeaway should be ingrained by now.
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What I want you to do is let your
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movement patterns happen, let your
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takeaway happen, and feel the same things
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at the top.
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So you know what it feels like. You
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should have done enough reps right now.
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By the time you move to this final stage
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of trying to do it correctly with the
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club in your setup position,
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flipped normal right side out,
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then it's going to be just getting to the
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top. And first,
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we're going to take another distraction
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out. We're going to take the weight of
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the club head out of there. I'm going to
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start in my setup position with just the
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shaft or just the butt into the club
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down. And I'm just going to try and get
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to that same setup position or top of the
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swing position by doing the same move. So
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I'm feeling this and this with a club in
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my hands.
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I'm just trying to get to the top. If you
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can't do it with a club in your hands,
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throw the club down,
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grab your left thumb, and create the same
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movement. But now we're doing it from our
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setup position.
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Until you can do that right, there's no
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point in having a club.
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Once you get it all together, then take
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the club, get in your normal setup,
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normal grip,
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and just try and move the same position
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at the top every time.
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Check yourself in a mirror. If you don't
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have a mirror or camera, you're going to
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have a hard time mastering these moves.
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You must be able to see exactly what
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you're doing. Once you can do this, you
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will have a perfect backswing every
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single time.
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