Bill Haas - Power from the ground up
Bill Haas - Power from the ground up
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Description
In this video, I'll show you what powering the golf swing from the ground up really means. I'll show you how Bill Haas uses his lower body perfectly to start his downswing sequence. The downswing sequence happens really fast and you must have a clear picture on how to get things started down properly, how to stabilize and how to stall the body properly for the proper timing of the release. If you have been searching for a solution to put more power in your game, then you must learn how to use your big and more powerful muscles first.
Video Practice Points
- Shift your weight first to start the downswing
- Stabilize the lower body by driving the lead heel into the ground
- Use the core muscles to unwind the torso
- Release when the lower body is stable and stalled
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Hey everyone, This is rotary swing
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instructor Chris Tyler. And if you have
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been searching for a solution on how to
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put more effortless power into your golf
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game, then I'm going to show you how. The
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2015 Humana Challenge champion Bill Haas
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powers his golf swing from the ground up.
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Now let's go ahead and get started.
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Okay guys, So I want to spend some time
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this week talking about
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downswing sequencing and what it actually
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means to power the golf swing from the
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ground up. I know a lot of us have
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probably heard that expression. And if
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you really, kind of grab a hold the idea
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of what that means. And hopefully this
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review will give you a clear indication
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of what it means,
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it'll certainly help you overcome a lot
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of those big faults that you have in your
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golf swing. If you notice that you have a
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loss of lag or if you have poor balance,
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if you notice that you come way over the
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top, If you get a good prioritized list
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of things that are of what are supposed
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to fire. When in the downward move, it'll
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be much easier to preserve lag, and it'll
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be much easier to take that stored power
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up and turn it into speed at impact. So I
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think it's best if we look at where we're
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trying to get to first before I talk
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about how to get there. If you look here
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at his impact position this is a driver
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swing, You can see that he's got a nice
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stacked up left side.
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Got a little bit of secondary axis tilt
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here, so you can see this is a driver
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swing now, so we normally would see a
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pretty drastic increase in secondary axis
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tilt. Because a lot of golf pros really
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try to launch the ball very high in the
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air, that's why we make some driver setup
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adjustments.
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But very good stacked up left side
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appearance here. Overall, a pretty
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textbook looking impact position.
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So how do we get to this position from
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the top of the golf swing down? That's
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our big question today. So if we go ahead
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and I'm going to load Bill right up to
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the top of his swing.
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Probably one of the better working
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transitions I see in modern golf today.
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I'm going to go ahead and mark the club
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position, The club head, I'm also going
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to mark the outside part of his lead
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thigh here, so you have a good, clear
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understanding of what's going to start.
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So when golfers load up to this position
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here, the tendency for amateur golfers is
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to start to use their shoulders and their
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arms way too early. Now I like to think
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of the lower body as the dump truck in
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our golf swing, it's big, it's powerful,
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But it's really slow.
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We need the dump truck to kind of pull
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things and get things moving in the golf
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swing. In order to get things stabilized
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and make sure that we're going to be able
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to utilize all the power. I think of the
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arms and the hands as kind of the Ferrari
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we don't want, If you get to the golf
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swing and you start to use your shoulders
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and your arms way too early,
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you're going to get in a race with those
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hands and arms and the lower body. And
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guess what, Those arms are going to be
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really fast and they can actually make
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your lower body not work at all. It can
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cause you to hang back, It It can cause
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you to throw the club very early,
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which in turn you're going to lose lag.
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So the idea is that we want to keep the
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Ferraris in the garage for a little bit.
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We want the dump truck, really, to kind
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of start our party out,
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so how do we do that? So when we get up
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to the top part of the golf swing, what
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do we need to do to get the lower body
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really working? You're going to see a
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very good sized shift of the hips here,
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so you can see a good shift of the weight
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over to that lead side. So now you can
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see that his outside part of his thigh
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has moved a good 6, 7, 8 inches or so and
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notice how the club has moved virtually
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the same amount of space.
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So the hands and the arms and the
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shoulders didn't do anything at this
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point. All we did from the top part of
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the golf swing to start the downward move
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was shift our weight. Now what do we do
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to get things further down into the
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hitting area? well the first and foremost
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thing that we want to look for in order
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to get that golf swing that's powered
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from the ground up is we want to
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stabilize
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so when you get your weight shifted over
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to that left side now we need to start to
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stabilize by pushing that left heel into
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the ground that pushing the left heel in
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the ground is going to get those glute
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muscles really contracted and it's also
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going to create some resistance from the
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ground it's going to act more like a
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piston so you push into the ground like
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that it's going to make the leg work more
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to a straight position so that's allowing
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you to leverage the ground
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once you shift then stabilize the left
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side it's very very critical for being
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able to move power up the kinetic chain
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but now to get the hands and the arms and
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the shoulders down in the hitting area we
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need to use the core muscles our abs or
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obliques we need to use those to start to
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unwind the torso
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and right here we're going to start to
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use those to unwind we're still not using
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the hands and the arms as much as you
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would think at this point the hands the
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arms and the shoulders are not really
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doing much of anything all we've done now
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is we're stabilizing the left side
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we're using those big muscles those those
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oblique muscles
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that's allowing us to pull the shoulders
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and the arms down into the hitting area a
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little bit of gravity is moving them down
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there as well but this is the point of
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the golf swing where we're really
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starting to post up and we're going to
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start to stall the body out as much as
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possible because when you start to stall
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the body now the hands and arms can act
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independently from the body and they can
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release on through
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so you notice here I'm going to go ahead
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and mark the outside or mark where the
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club head is now
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I'm also going to mark the buttons on his
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shirt
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and I'll mark the pocket just for good
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sake here
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alright so you can see now this is where
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he's going to start to really release the
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golf club okay so things are really
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starting to release hard notice that the
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buttons on the shirt are not moving at
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all
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and the pocket is not moving at all and
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see how far this club has traveled from
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this position there might be a little
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movement of the buttons but not a ton
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and then right on through the hitting
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area okay so you can see that this golf
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club has traveled a good eight feet the
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left hip is not moved and the buttons on
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his shirt have not moved so this is a
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very very textbook way to stall the body
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and release the club with max speed down
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in the hitting area now you'll see the
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buttons move a little bit more as they
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move through some more frames here and
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that's just because the hands and the
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arms are hanging onto the club the club's
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got a lot of momentum and it's pulling us
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up into our finished position
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so the idea with a properly sequenced
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golf swing that can help you overcome a
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lot of those faults with being over the
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top loss of lag loss of balance the idea
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is is to get things motoring with the
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dump truck get your lower body moving
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first once it's shifted over to your lead
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side stabilize it make sure that it's
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going to be able to handle that load it's
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going to make you want to be able to
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handle all that momentum as you're
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releasing the club so stabilize it by
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driving the left heel into the ground and
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then use those core muscles those engaged
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core muscles those abs those obliques to
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start to pull all right you're going to
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create some torso rotation which is going
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to now pull the shoulders down in the
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hitting area which has now got the hands
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and arms more out in front of the body to
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where you can start to release it on
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through and you will have way more speed
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than you ever have all right so use this
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sequencing use the lower body first
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always in your downward move that'll help
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get things really rocking and rolling I
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got a couple of great videos I want you
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guys to check out we got an awesome video
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coming out later in the week that Chuck
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just put together it's actually kind of
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coincides with what I talked about today
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that's going to be coming out as a
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premium video later in the week
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I also have three sources to increase
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power that's going to be over on the
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right hand side of the video player
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that's a great video transition drill
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that's another good video for you guys to
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understand how the lower body is going to
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work and then the straight left legged
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impact video that's a video that I did
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that talked about the proper muscle
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engagement shows you a good way to find
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how to get some awareness of those glute
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muscles because you really need the dump
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truck kind of getting things started
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before you can turn those Ferraris on let
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them loose and have a good old time so
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all right guys so that's how to properly
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power a golf swing from the ground up I
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wish you all the best and let's get out
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there and play some great golf
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