Sang-Moon Bae Hips For Lag
Sang-Moon Bae Hips For Lag
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Description
In this new video, I'll show you how Sang-Moon Bae uses his hips for a ton of lag in his golf swing. I'll also show you how to use your arms way less in your downswing sequence so that you can stop working so hard and put more speed in your swing than ever before.
Video Practice Points
- Use the hips to start the downswing sequence.
- Keep the arms relaxed and allow the rotation of the torso to move the hands and arms out in front of the body
- Pull the lead hip away from the target, stall the hips and release the club for max speed at impact.
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Hey everyone, This is Rotary Swing
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Instructor Chris Tyler. And this week,
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Sang Moon Bay gets his second win on the
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PGA Tour at the Fry's Open. I'm going to
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show you how he uses his lower body to
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sequence up his downswing, and he gets a
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lot more lag by using the hips. You're
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going to be able to put this to use and
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have more speed than you ever have
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before.
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I think one of the more common mistakes
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that we see among all the amateur
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golfers, whether you're a 2 handicap, a
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10 handicap, a 30 handicap, Is that we're
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just trying to do way too much with the
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hands and the arms way too early on in
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the golf swing? And that, in turn, Runs
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into a mess of sequencing problems and
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doesn't allow you to be able to pull the
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proper power and move it up the kinetic
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chain and then fine tune it through the
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release. So essentially, what we're
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trying to do is we want to get things
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really started in the downward move, with
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the lower half unwinding. We want to make
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sure that it's sitting left. We want to
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start to unwind those hips. And then
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eventually, what we're going to be doing
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is we're going to be decelerating or
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stalling them. And moving the power up
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the chain and then delivering it through
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the release.
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Tour players keep the golf club moving
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very, very slowly throughout the
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takeaway, Throughout the backswing and
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then three feet prior to the golf ball,
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it speeds up nearly 60% to where they're
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delivering max speed at impact. That's
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one of the more common things that you'll
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see amongst all tour players is that in
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the modern day golf swing. Is that? They
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really learned how to stall their body
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properly and make a lot of efficient
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speed down there by releasing it at the
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right time.
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And so this week, we're going to be
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focusing on Sang Moon's golf swing and
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how he sequences his downswing
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beautifully.
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He's got really kind of a textbook
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downswing transition so that's going to
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be our focus point. So we're going to get
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both players up to the top here, both
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down the line and face on.
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You're going to see from a down the line
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perspective, he's got about 95 degrees of
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right arm flexion right here. Good loaded
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up right side, he's made a very wide turn
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with his shoulders from a face on
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perspective.
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But one of the really big common things
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is that players will try to do is they'll
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try to pull their arms down in front of
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them before they get seated left.
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Now, the hands and arms will move out in
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front of you if you rotate your torso and
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you're properly seated left. So if you
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shift your hips left. And you were to try
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to hold your hands and arms up in the
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vertical plane, up in this really tall
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position. And then you were to start to
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try to pull your left hip away from the
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target, You would notice that the hands
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and arms are now moving out in front of
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you and they're being pulled down closer
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into the hitting area.
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So I challenge you guys to all try that.
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So without a golf club, go ahead and go
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through the elevation and the right arm
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flexion, get yourself into a good
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position at the top. And then shift left
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and then start to pull your left hip away
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from the target with your lead side
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obliques and notice what the hands and
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arms do.
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You can't, it's impossible to leave them
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up in that position if you're doing this
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thing, if you're doing this properly. You
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would see that you don't have to do much
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with the hands and the arms, you don't
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have to pull them down. And what that's
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doing is it's allowing things to really
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kind of unload and keeping the arms in a
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passive state. So more or less if you
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watch here from a down the line
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perspective, you're going to see he
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starts to sit left so you can see those
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hips really starting to unwind. They're
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already at square and then he's going to
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start to pull that left hip open. Now you
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can see here that he's been able to
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maintain that original angle that he had
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at the top part of his golf swing. So you
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can see he's still got 90 degrees or so
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of right arm flexion and he's actually
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going to probably one more frame. He
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still has a good amount of right arm
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flexion here. So you can see he's got
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right around 90 degrees still at this
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point, maybe a little less than that, But
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this is the point where the hips are
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starting to stall and he's starting to
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release the golf club.
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So same kind of thing from a face on
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perspective, you're going to see a good
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sitting move left from the hips here.
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You're going to see a good sit, you can
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see those hips starting to unwind. He's
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not doing anything with the hands and the
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arms, He's still being able to maintain
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the angle that he originally had up in
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the top part of the golf swing there.
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And he's going to continue to pull that
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left hip out of the way. So you can see
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that left hip starting to pull out of the
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way. And now from this particular
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perspective, from a face on, if you watch
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the pockets on his pants here,
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you'll see that they come to a virtual
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stalling point here. So you can see
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there's very little rotation at all and
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now he's releasing that angle and
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extending through the hitting area. So
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that's exactly what we're looking for is
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we don't want the hands and arms doing
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much of anything until we get down to the
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release point. Yeah, gravity is going to
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help him a little bit.
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And then the, you know, the torso
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rotation, that's going to help move him
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down in there. And then you just go ahead
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and release it and you'll be at max speed
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right where it counts. And that's an
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impact. A lot of people that are trying
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to pull the arms down and trying to focus
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primarily on the arms to maintain a lot
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of lag. Are really kind of training their
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sequence in an opposite manner. They're
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training the arms first and then the
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lower body, and that can create a lot of
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timing mistakes in the golf swing. And
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what we're really trying to do is we're
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trying to extract a lot of the timing
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variables in the golf swing and make it a
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very consistent style move. So,
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you know, kind of expounding on that as
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if we're trying to really get, the arms
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can go really fast. And if we're trying
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to really pull them down, they can
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outrace the lower half really easily. And
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that can run into a lot of ball striking
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issues where you can either hit things
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fat, club can come in really steep.
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You know, you can outrace the lower body
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to a point where you start hitting a lot
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of fat or thin shots. So you've got to
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make sure that you're really trying to
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keep the arms still, or trying to keep
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them put.
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Make sure that you're sitting left,
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Driving that left heel on the ground to
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make sure that you're stabilizing with
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those left glute muscles. And then using
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that left oblique to start to pull the
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hip away from the target. That'll help
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get the hands and arms down into the
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hitting area, where you go ahead and just
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release it and you'll rip the cover off
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the golf ball. So that's what Sang Moon
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does so well as you'll see a lot of the
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tour players out there. They do, they
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have a really good downswing sequence and
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then they have a great release. So
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there's a couple videos on the website I
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want you guys to check out that's going
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to, that's going to really kind of go
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further into some of the details. There's
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a video that Chuck did that's called the
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hip speed and hand speed video. That's in
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the advanced downswing section.
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It's where Chuck actually visited the
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TaylorMade Institute, and he was able to
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get a lot of great data.
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It's a, it's a fantastic video so I
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encourage you guys all to check that out.
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Then there's also a transition drill over
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there in that same section. And then the,
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The role of the right foot that's going
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to teach you how the right foot can act
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as a breaking mechanism to the hips. So
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you can stall those properly and then
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release it. And as always, you know, when
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we do these, these tour analysis, You're
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going to hear us talk a little bit of a
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lot, about five minutes to a perfect
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release. Because that's one of the really
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common areas that some of the best
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players, All the best players in the
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world share is that they have good
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control of the club face and they've got
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proper release in the hitting area. So
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always check those videos out. Let's get
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your downswing sequence by getting that
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lower body really working. Make sure you
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try to keep those hands and arms very
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quiet until you're ready to release it.
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And you'll get out there and blow it past
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your friends. All right, guys, I wish you
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all the best. Let's get out there and
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play some great golf and we will talk to
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you soon.
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