The Motorcycle Move & SI Joint Mechanics

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As far as the the topics, we're going to cover the motorcycle movement, which I

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always demonstrate, kind of like this, so many people start thinking it's just

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the lead wrist, but I'm going to show you in today's webinar that it's more

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than just the lead wrist, what's happening at the club, and then we'll go over

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the the basic anatomy of the SI joint, so we're we're kind of working into the

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spine.

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From the pelvis, and that's a real key area for golf, at least for

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understanding kind of pain patterns and loading patterns and things like that.

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Okay, so when it comes to the motorcycle movement, one of the biggest keys is

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getting gradual face closing.

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So you've probably seen, I've done a bunch of things where I talk about the ax

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ial velocity graph. The axial velocity graph is what I'm going to use to refer

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to the motorcycle movement.

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And let's pull me up.

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Okay, so the axial velocity graph is looking at the speed that the club is

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rotating. So when it's positive, it's closing, and when it's negative, it's

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opening.

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And so what you can see with this golfer is as the golfer

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in the backswing, the club is opening slightly and then it gets to the top of

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the swing and it goes negative or goes positive. It starts closing

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early in the downswing and it's kind of got a real gradual slope to it.

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This is a pattern that I like to see or that I commonly see with really

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consistent golfers, really consistent ball strikers.

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Now, what you'll, the things that let me bring this up, the things that have

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the biggest influence are going to be the leader is flexion and the trail worst

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extension, but

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it took me a little while to kind of understand this, but what you'll actually

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see is if I bend forward, I'm not changing anything with my hands. If I bend

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forward, I can rotate it.

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Or if I pull my arms down, I can rotate it. So just from kind of changing the

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arc of the, or the angle of the shoulders or the angle of the chest, I can

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influence that graph.

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So it's not just lead wrist and trail wrist movement. It's also what's

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happening at the shoulders or what I have up here at the thorax.

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Now, it's a, I'm going to say it's a tricky one to see. What I did here was I,

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I'm playing the animation so you can kind of see it along. Unfortunately, on

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this first one, I opened the raw file instead of the smooth file.

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So it's not going to be at the same timing as the golf swing. You can see he

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already changed direction down there.

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Good. So if we flip back and forth, I just want you to watch the angle of the

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club right there.

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I want you to watch the angle of the club head and you'll see that as it's

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going down there, it's starting to rotate and point more towards the ground.

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Now, here's a golfer. This is a tour golfer. He's a very good ball striker, but

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he's a little streaky, especially off the tee, so with the longer clubs, and he

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has more of kind of that arm pull pattern.

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So you'll see the lead wrist is going to go into extension, but the trail wrist

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is also going into extension. So the trail wrist technically is closing it. The

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lead wrist is technically opening it.

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And then what you'll see is he has a fair amount of thorax lift. So even though

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he's kind of basically he'll have a look of more of a stand up and that stand

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up helps open it with that lead wrist pull down.

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So if we take a look at this golfer.

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So you'll see the club face as he does that, I'll go kind of a little bit

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slower frame my frame. You'll see that the club is slowly starting to point

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more up compared to the axis.

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Now, I'll talk about this. Actually, you know, it'll come up again when we look

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at shanking later in the video. That's going to be one of the big takeaways is

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I'm going to go through kind of my checklist and recipes when I'm looking at sh

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anking. But

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I bring this back up. So what some people feel is they feel more the shaft so

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that what they feel what they're holding. They don't actually feel the weight

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of the club, which is off of the shaft.

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And so when you pull down, like if I wanted to swing this thing as fast as

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possible and feel like I had control of it, I'd probably want the club head,

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the weight going right through the center of the shaft like this.

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If it was more like that, it kind of feels unstable. It doesn't feel like it

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can swing it quite as fast because it feels like when I apply force, there's

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this little reverberation I've got to handle.

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So the challenge for a lot of golfers is when you do more of this motorcycle,

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it gets the weight of the club no longer in the axis of the thing that I'm

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holding, it kind of gets it now more like a hockey stick, less like a baseball

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bat.

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It's a lot of golfers who are sensing a feeling of power, especially pulling

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with the arms and the shoulders tend to do more to get the club in line with

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the hosel.

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So we'll see that when we look at the shanking later.

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Okay, now we're going to look at a couple amateurs and this first one, I

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believe, yes, so this first one is one of the ones that really kind of

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got me thinking about the motorcycle movement a little bit differently.

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So this was a collegiate player, pretty good, could get a little streaky with

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the driver, but a pretty good ball striker.

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And you'll see that lead wrist, he got a little off with his arc width, so that

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's where he could get a little bit inconsistent, but

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the lead wrist is going into extension there during the early part of the down

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swing.

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So even though the trail wrist is going into extension, the lead wrist is going

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into extension as well.

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Now he, as compared to that tour pro, we saw who was opening it, the wrist aren

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't that different.

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So if I scroll back, you'll see lead wrist going into extension, trail wrist

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going into extension.

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A little bit of shallowing on both sides, but

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primarily the extension is the big piece. You'll see similar looking wrist

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grafts and very different axial velocity graphs.

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It's because of the difference of what's happening at the shoulders and what's

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happening at the body.

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This golfer has more of a kind of flexion upper body

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lunge or dive type pattern. So he gets up to the top of the swing and his upper

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body really goes down

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and that will tend to

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help close the face. So even though he shallows it a good bit, you can see this

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model is lowering

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two and a half inches and he's really going into flexion early with his trunk.

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So it's that movement of the upper body kind of covering the ball that helps

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close the face.

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So one of the ways that many amateur golfers close the face is not so much with

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the independent wrist movement.

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They do it more with a dropping down or lowering of their body.

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And the ones you don't, the ones who really stand up tend to open the face up

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even more and then

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kind of look more like this pattern. So the club gets really open and then has

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to slam shut fast

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late. So this golfer is extending the wrist but he's also flexing the trail

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wrist. So it's possible

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that I haven't seen that combination produce a more of a gradual curve. Oops,

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you can't see the

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mouse. I haven't seen that combination create more of a gradual curve. So

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typically if both wrists are

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rotating open the face doesn't matter what you do with the body, the face is

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going to open. And so

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now we'll watch that one. So this is kind of more of a classic get really steep

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And actually I take that back, I forgot why I put this one in. He's actually

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flexing the

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leader is so he's doing a little bit of closing of the face with that leader is

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but the trail

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wrist was opening the face. We could find out down the road that perhaps this

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has to do with grip

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pressure and which hand is actually moving the club and which hand is just

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moving in response to

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the other moving. But you can see that his lead wrist does flex which should

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close the face but

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you'll see that he goes into more of a stand up move so he doesn't have a

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really big flexion move

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and that right shoulder or the right hand goes into more of a flexion move as

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well which opens

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the face. So well I think you can get a good sense by looking at video. I did

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want you to see on

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this with this graph, there's a little bit more interpretation than just

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looking at the movement

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of the wrist to see what's happening at the club. But if you start trying to

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look in transition at

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the orientation of the club compared to the shaft, you might get a little bit

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better at being able

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to read this. The key takeaway here is to look at the movement of the club not

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just the movement

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of the wrist. There are more things that influence the motorcycle than just the

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lead wrist flexion.

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That's definitely one of the big common ones but this last golfer showed a

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little bit going this

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way but still getting kind of steep and opening it more like this. So the

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influence of the shoulders,

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the influence of the posture, basically anything that rotates the club down

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that way is going to

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help close it, anything that can see me doing any that. So again the wrist will

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have the biggest

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influence but the body position, the shoulders, everything that rotates the

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club down that way

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can help close it and everything that would rotate it more this way can help

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open it. And what I see

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on 3D is that the more consistent golfers tend to have more of a gradual

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closing where

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the less consistent golfers tend to go really open and then slam it shut away.

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Okay so now on to the SI joint. So the SI joint is

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and yeah it looks like I'm having some issues with the the live stream so I'm

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recording this and

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we'll get it up on the site and you'll still be able to watch it and if you

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have any questions

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submit them and hopefully I can figure out what the heck went wrong this

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morning before the

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the next one in a few weeks. Okay so the SI joint is where the spine meets the

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the legs

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through the pelvis. So here we have the pelvis you can see it on the skeleton.

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This is the sacrum

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here and then these are the two ilium or the um you know basically what you

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feel as your pelvis.

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Now the the legs standing on the ground all that force wants to push the iliums

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up. Oops you can't see

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me. Okay so you've got the two ilium on the side and then these are the legs.

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The legs want to

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push the ilium up but the spine and everything up above it wants to fall down.

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So these these two

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want to kind of move past each other but there's a really intricate complex

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joint that manages how

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those forces work. The two like what keeps the pressure what keeps the the

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joint functioning is

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what's referred to as form and force closure. So essentially I've got the yoga

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block we'll

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use later. So form closure is basically the geometric structure so you can see

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here that this is

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basically sitting on there so as this pushes up and this pushes down that

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creates a tight

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junction. The next would be force closure so now there's nothing underneath

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holding it but I'm

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applying some pressure this way that is keeping this from falling. In the

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actual

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SI joint there's a little bit of both. There's some there's a little bit of an

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angle.

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The sacrum is shaped like this and the ilium are as well so this is kind of if

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it it's like a wedge

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kind of falling down. So over on the far right where you see SI stability you

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've got that

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that angle and then there's tons of ligaments and some muscles that are

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applying the tension

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which is creating the force closure. So essentially you've got form closure

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from the shape of the

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joint. We'll look at that a little bit in more detail because these are it's a

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it's a complicated

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joint. It's very tricky but and it's a common source of back pain and it's a

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common source of

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abdominal dysfunction. So if you have a hard time transferring energy from your

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legs using your

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glutes using your abs there's a chance that this is out of order. And then

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force closure is the

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compression caused from both the body weight and the ligaments and the big

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muscles in that area.

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We'll look at that a little bit more as well. All right so I'll actually move

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that down a little bit.

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So we're going to look at the movement here. I reordered it. All right so we'll

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look at that

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here in a second. Okay so if I jump back up this is kind of a rough kind of

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schematic of the body

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weight of the pelvis is going down and pushing through this joint and the the

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force coming up from

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the ground is going up and these arrows are kind of all meeting and creating

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this harmony where the

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forces from above and the forces from below are balanced in this really elegant

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structure.

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Kind of here's another image of it. So looking at it more from face-on

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because the interesting thing is it's actually shaped like this where the pel

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vis, the pubic

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synthesis is way in front of the sacrum so you've got forces being managed in

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this kind of complicated

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3D structure. And there's a lot of muscles at play. I'm going to keep

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referencing various

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muscles. I recommend just kind of pulling out an anatomy book and studying it a

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little bit

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because what you'll see is there's a lot of little small important movements

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going on.

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In fact if you want to look at what the spine is doing rotation-wise, getting

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an idea as far as

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what the sacrum is doing is a good place to look. Now one of the hard things is

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some of these

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movements are really small so therefore it's impossible to get their

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measurements on a 3D system.

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You get more of a global movement, not these little small micro movements.

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So we've got all these muscles influencing how the SI joint is functioning and

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how the hip skin

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function but we also have a ton of ligaments. So this is what the pelvis looks

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like if you strip

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away the skin roughly. There's some really big important ligaments. We're going

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to talk primarily

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about these ones up here called the ileolumbar ligaments. There are two of them

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, they go from

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L4 and L5 to the ilea or the pelvis. So it looks, here's that ileolumbar lig

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ament up here and we'll

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you'll see some when I get to the animation of being able to show you how this

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movement looks.

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You'll see why that's such a common source of pain. Now these ligaments, if you

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've ever

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had an ankle sprain you know how painful that can be. Well these ligaments in

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your back can

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basically get mild sprains or severe sprains and that's one of the main causes

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of back pain.

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And so having exercises like the aldoa or therapies where they can pump these

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ligaments

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is really helpful for golfers experiencing lower back pain. If you can reach

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down and kind of touch

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it right on the point of where your pelvis or your lower back is, the PSIS, it

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's a good chance

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that pain is originating from the SI joint being a little out of sorts. Because

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in addition to

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all those muscles and ligaments you can see that there's a large number of

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these yellow things

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or nerves. So there's some really important ligaments. If they get tight they

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can pinch

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on the nerves and then the brain sends a signal of pain. So here's the ileolumb

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ar ligaments

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from in front. That's the main one we're going to talk about today. And then

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from the back you

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can see it over here. Now one of the or two of the common muscles that are also

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influenced in

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this lower back pain especially like sciatica are the piriformis and the obtur

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ator internus muscle.

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If these two get really tight you can see that there's a really big nerve

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adjacent to them and

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that can get impinged and create a whole lot of pain. So that's one of the more

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common

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muscles I teach people how to stretch when we're doing when anyone has a pelvic

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issue.

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Piriformis obturator internus. There are some big muscles that help with the

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force closure.

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Glute maximus, the hamstring and the glute medius. We'll talk about it when we

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look at

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gait here in a few slides. But basically in order to move you need to create a

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fixed point.

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So you're either going to have a fixed point at the spine and then the leg can

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move or you're

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going to have a fixed point at the leg and then the spine moves. We'll see how

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these muscles

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kind of help coordinate that depending on if they are the fixed point or the

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open side.

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Alright so here I'll actually jump this one up. So I said it was a complicated

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joint. We'll see

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about when we look at the structure but essentially there are different axes

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that that bone can move

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on. The givoie who I study from he talks about 22 different axes of rotation

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but this one is

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just talking about it's not including the verticals or the APs but the two

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while there are many kind

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of pathologic axes there's really only two movement axes or two traditional

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axes and those are the

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the right oblique and the left oblique. So the right oblique goes from the

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right side here to the

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lower left and the left oblique goes from the upper left to the bottom right.

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why they're called that here in a second. But those are the main sources of

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movement. So basically

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if I have just kind of a book that sacrum is kind of sitting like this in

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between the two

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filia. It moves either on this axis here this would be the from my point of

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view this would be the

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right oblique axis and then this would be the left oblique axis. So basically

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the upper side

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will be the name of the axis but they go diagonally from one side to the other.

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There's two main axes of rotation and what that does is it creates when you're

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walking it creates

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this rotation side bend rotation side bend that kind of helps create this

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movement. I've got an

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animation we'll look at here in a second but this is actually let me use this

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one. Okay so this is

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looking at the sacrum but now we're looking at a side view. So you're basically

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looking at this

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part of the sacrum. So through the pelvis into the sacrum there and you'll see

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that there's

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this kind of L shape or almost ear shaped joint. So the joint is kind of in

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this L shape like this

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and the the movement kind of follows the rails. In atomically they call this

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the lesser arm and

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then this the greater arm and the greater arm is more horizontal but it's

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longer the lesser arm is

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more vertical but it's shorter and then the middle in between those is called

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the isthmus.

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So you'll see that actually where is this? Here we go. Okay so here's that look

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of the

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joint or the you've got the lesser arm and the greater arm. Here's a little top

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ography map showing

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that it's it's kind of convexed. So they basically sit in each other like half

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of a tennis ball

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inside of another one. So then they kind of have this like sliding rotating

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movement but they stay

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on this rail. When it gets out of the rail you're going to have a lot of pain.

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That's why it's

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one of the common sources because there you saw how big those muscles are.

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While there's a lot

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of force closure or form closure it is possible to get those either from trauma

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or overuse or

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imbalance. You can get it where that is no longer sitting in flush and now it's

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kind of sitting crooked

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like that and you're going to get some extra friction and somewhere in pain

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patterns.

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So here's just kind of like a this is the ilius side of looking at that L and

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basically

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you could imagine if those two were going to follow down the rail there would

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be some rotation to it.

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And so when you see this you can see that basically as this curves this points

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more down but it's

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rotating roughly around kind of the middle of the bone and so the that joint is

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following almost

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like a C shape type movement like that. And then when it goes more vertical

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this one now goes up

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it goes more like that. So that's the classic movement it's on a slight angle

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kind of going

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like this but also kind of teeter tottering like that. So here's the animation

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that I was

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talking about. If we look at it from behind and I'll play this a couple times

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if you look at it from

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behind you can see that the sacrum is kind of rotating like this and then the

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ilius is rotating

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like that. So what's happening the sacrum goes like this and the ilium rotates

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behind it and on the

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other side the the ilium is rotating around so they're kind of going like this.

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that again the reason I talked about those ilio lumbar ligaments is if you

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watch the lower these

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last two vertebrae because they're tied by these ligaments they follow the

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movement of the the ilia

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or the pelvis while the sacrum is going in the opposite direction. That's one

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of the reasons why

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this area takes such a beating especially if it's out of alignment because you

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have some natural

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shearing due to the movement of the ligaments there. So if you also have like

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translations like

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it's not sitting level it's kind of sitting more like this then you're really

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asking for for problems.

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So here they kind of separate it so you can see the movements independently it

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's kind of a cool

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look. Although they stopped L4 L5 from moving in this particular model but you

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can see at least

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so as it moves that way the ilia gets pulled back because the movement of the

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sacrum and the

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lumbar vertebra rotate with the ilia. So if the pelvic floor is out of order if

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you've got digestive issues that can pull the pelvis out of order urologically

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issues like

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everything down in this area is tightly connected. So whether it's digestion or

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kidneys or bladder

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or sex organs like all of that stuff can create dysfunction and that

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dysfunction creates an

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imbalance in the pelvis and then they don't want to move their pelvis correctly

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. So this is where

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some of the kind of advanced testing and discussing at least in the gym can

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help identify how much of

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these patterns are going to really be able to change. But what will usually

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happen is we mentioned

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that there's this form and force closer. Typically golfers will stand or put

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more pressure into the

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unstable side. So if you're naturally unstable on one side let's say my right

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side is a little bit

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wonky I will stand and put more pressure into that right side. So if I have a

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golfer who has a

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really hard time getting into their left side they might struggle with fat thin

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contact with

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their wedges creating too much axis tilt or they might just struggle with thin

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contact and hooking

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the ball because they can't quite get into that left side. Looking at the SI

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joint looking at the

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core function looking at trying to get the pelvis balanced maybe one of the big

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reasons why.

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Okay so as I said didn't have any questions come in this month but or at least

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not from the

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the coaches. So I prepared a couple more kind of case studies and little things

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that you can do

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experimenting with your students. And right now I'm running a program of kind

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of getting ready

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for tournaments. So we were talking about aiming the shotgun. Now basically

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what I mean by that is

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if you've got you know this is a scott faucet phrase of that we're shooting a

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shotgun not a

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rifle you basically want to take your your average shot and play for that not

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necessarily play for

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your best shot. So one game that I have students do is we'll we'll hit 10 or 20

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shots at the same

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target and just track where they finish offline. Usually I teach them on the

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range to use like

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aim point like finger system so and they'll just write it down so it might be

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you know this ball

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was one finger right three fingers left two fingers left and at the end of 20

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you get kind

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of an average distribution. Now I had a this was I was just showing them about

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okay the about the

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scatter plot. So this was me I hit 27 irons for just before class April so a

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little bit ago.

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Now wait this was March that's like the data I was looking at or printed off

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the or took a picture

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for you guys. But basically this is a normal distribution where the shots of

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the right typically

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come up a little short because the club faces a little open the shots to the

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left typically go a

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little long so you get this pattern here. Now this is five yard increments and

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then these are 15.

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So you'll see with mine about 50 percent of the shots are within five yards to

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the right five

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yards to the left with a little bias to the left. So I for me it might be risky

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if I'm aiming

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my seven iron at a place where I don't have two fingers to the left of where I

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'm aiming

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or one finger to the right. That's kind of how I would use this this approach.

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But anyway so that's

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fun for helping golfers figure out where they need to aim. Now my normal pads

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somewhere around

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three or four degrees in out with a club face that's about half that so every

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one of these has a nice

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little draw these shots over here just the push where it doesn't draw but none

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of them

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and kind of faded and then this would be more the overdraws or the face gets a

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little bit too closed.

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Now I said that I had a student who wanted to do this but missed the class so

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for the makeup he

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came in and we did it on track man. Now I've talked about this in in a few

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videos and I've

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talked about it kind of theoretically but this was really cool to see because

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this was a practical

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application of it. This golfer he's got a little bit of a scoop a little bit of

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a flip he's got a

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really straight path so for 10 swings his average path was 0.5. Now because

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this the club face or

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sorry because the path was very straight you'll see uh actually I'll switch

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over here. So because

490
00:31:36.800 --> 00:31:41.700
the club face was very straight you will see that he has very few shots that

491
00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:43.360
finish within five

492
00:31:43.360 --> 00:31:50.310
yards of his target most of them are either 10 to 15 left or 10 to 15 right. So

493
00:31:50.310 --> 00:31:50.720
this is the

494
00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:55.590
danger of when your path gets too straight you end up having a hard time um

495
00:31:55.590 --> 00:31:56.800
aiming your shotgun

496
00:31:56.800 --> 00:32:01.070
because you have equally big misses to the right and the left so you should

497
00:32:01.070 --> 00:32:02.240
just anticipate that

498
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:07.840
the majority of the time the ball's not going to go where you aim and that can

499
00:32:07.840 --> 00:32:09.280
be challenging for

500
00:32:09.280 --> 00:32:15.920
a lot of golfers to think their way through. So that was with us uh 9 iron when

501
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:17.200
we did this in class

502
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:25.200
we did uh because the course here is a little shorter we did um 125 150 and 100

503
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:26.640
so I had him do

504
00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:33.180
9 iron which was kind of his 125 club and then 7 iron is 150 club had pretty

505
00:32:33.180 --> 00:32:34.080
much the same

506
00:32:34.080 --> 00:32:39.220
distribution and had it even straighter path his problem. Now he says hey I'm a

507
00:32:39.220 --> 00:32:40.160
pretty good wedge

508
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:45.020
player you can see there's a lot more here in the middle for his wedge and his

509
00:32:45.020 --> 00:32:46.000
club path was 4

510
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:50.410
degrees into out. He also said I have a totally different pattern but I'm a

511
00:32:50.410 --> 00:32:52.080
more consistent driver

512
00:32:52.080 --> 00:32:57.600
and yes you will see that he has more he did have a few hot pulls uh kind of

513
00:32:57.600 --> 00:32:58.400
early on

514
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:05.390
but more of his shots are within kind of that middle zone and he had a 10

515
00:33:05.390 --> 00:33:06.880
degree outside in

516
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:10.310
swing direction or a 5 degree outside end path because he hits way down on the

517
00:33:10.310 --> 00:33:10.720
driver.

518
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:18.960
So this is you know it's one example but I have found that golfers who get too

519
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:19.680
straight

520
00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:24.880
will tend to have this um no man's land zone at the actual target and they

521
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:26.080
either have a

522
00:33:26.080 --> 00:33:31.080
predominant miss or their misses will tend to kind of create this void right

523
00:33:31.080 --> 00:33:31.440
where they

524
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:35.160
would aim and they have to prepare for it's hard to hit it close to the target

525
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:36.080
unless they get

526
00:33:36.080 --> 00:33:41.650
really lucky. So if you're helping your golfers kind of get you understand

527
00:33:41.650 --> 00:33:43.200
where they should aim

528
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:46.960
this is a a good way to approach that topic.

529
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:58.800
Okay so now I've got um a couple case studies from the week and then we'll look

530
00:33:58.800 --> 00:33:59.680
at a couple

531
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:05.120
swings that were submitted and we'll talk about shanking the wall. All right so

532
00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:07.360
here's a student

533
00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:14.720
he actually had a big breakthrough this week following this lesson he broke 80

534
00:34:14.720 --> 00:34:15.040
for the first

535
00:34:15.040 --> 00:34:22.080
time he did it back to back 79. You'll see that on the way down he's got a lot

536
00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:23.280
of early extension

537
00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:28.700
everything is finishing very vertical. So we've done stuff working on the

538
00:34:28.700 --> 00:34:29.680
release we've done

539
00:34:29.680 --> 00:34:35.180
stuff working on transition. This time we went after more side bend so one of

540
00:34:35.180 --> 00:34:37.040
the big causes of

541
00:34:37.040 --> 00:34:40.940
early extension or contributors to early extension is lack of side bend to the

542
00:34:40.940 --> 00:34:41.280
spine.

543
00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:48.160
And so if I go back to where he was this is what I showed him

544
00:34:48.160 --> 00:34:56.970
so there's this little trigger as he goes through boom so you'll see that there

545
00:34:56.970 --> 00:34:57.760
's very little

546
00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:03.000
side bend to the right with his spine he's got it more up in his shoulders and

547
00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:03.440
neck

548
00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:11.040
and the pelvis is pretty level. So that's usually going to create the look of

549
00:35:11.040 --> 00:35:11.600
the

550
00:35:11.600 --> 00:35:16.480
early extension. So then we talked about side bending from the spine he did it

551
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:16.880
a little bit

552
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:23.460
too much from the upper body and he hasn't figured out okay if that if the body

553
00:35:23.460 --> 00:35:23.840
's there

554
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:27.600
what do my arms have to do differently. So we just ran the same arm program he

555
00:35:27.600 --> 00:35:28.080
was used to

556
00:35:28.080 --> 00:35:34.960
with the stand up and as a result you'll see this is a fun first rep

557
00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:42.870
where it bottoms out there and then actually swings up and over the golf ball.

558
00:35:42.870 --> 00:35:43.840
But the good

559
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:47.510
news is this is a golfer who normally hits lots of pop-ups so he was kind of

560
00:35:47.510 --> 00:35:48.400
encouraged to

561
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:55.260
to be so shallow he missed. So after working through a little bit more of the

562
00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:56.080
side bend move

563
00:35:56.080 --> 00:36:00.480
we worked a little bit on making sure the club wasn't so far from the inside

564
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.360
when he had the side

565
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:08.240
bend so changing the arm path just a little bit and changing the amount of body

566
00:36:08.240 --> 00:36:09.600
rotation so while

567
00:36:09.600 --> 00:36:14.990
he has some good side bend there he's really closed compared to the golf ball.

568
00:36:14.990 --> 00:36:17.120
So again this

569
00:36:17.120 --> 00:36:25.770
was still going up but you can see he was very encouraged and like I said after

570
00:36:25.770 --> 00:36:26.640
we worked through

571
00:36:26.640 --> 00:36:31.500
that lesson we went out on grass so we could see where the club was bottoming

572
00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:32.160
out but he was

573
00:36:32.160 --> 00:36:37.160
much able he was able to retain that spine angle a whole lot longer and when we

574
00:36:37.160 --> 00:36:38.080
cleaned up the

575
00:36:38.080 --> 00:36:43.360
sequence and the timing he had one of his best rounds ever for some break in 80

576
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.520
. They don't all

577
00:36:45.520 --> 00:36:52.570
go that way but okay so here's a new student he's a member of the site so he

578
00:36:52.570 --> 00:36:54.480
had already worked a

579
00:36:54.480 --> 00:37:01.680
little bit on some shawling and some anti-flip stuff but I'm not too worried

580
00:37:01.680 --> 00:37:02.320
about what we

581
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:07.190
the face on means a whitewash because we're really focusing on it down the line

582
00:37:07.190 --> 00:37:08.640
and we'll

583
00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:13.950
see there's a couple things as far as the body standing up and the arms getting

584
00:37:13.950 --> 00:37:15.680
fully extended at

585
00:37:15.680 --> 00:37:22.080
impact that tend to cause the impact to go way out to the right and cause his

586
00:37:22.080 --> 00:37:23.520
most troublesome

587
00:37:23.520 --> 00:37:35.200
ness of the pull up. So then we did a free setting side bend move and then tried

588
00:37:35.200 --> 00:37:36.560
to rotate through

589
00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:41.420
and you'll see how just by doing that side bend and then delaying the timing of

590
00:37:41.420 --> 00:37:42.000
the rotation

591
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:47.280
he was able to get into a much better looking follow through position. So I'm

592
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:48.240
pausing here I just

593
00:37:48.240 --> 00:37:53.360
wanted these two case studies I was using I wanted you'll see how it relates to

594
00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:54.480
the shank video that

595
00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:58.880
we're going to look at later but I wanted you to see how side bend or axis tilt

596
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.040
more side bend

597
00:38:01.040 --> 00:38:06.670
than axis tilt can help influence early extension it also has a big influence

598
00:38:06.670 --> 00:38:07.680
on the ability to

599
00:38:07.680 --> 00:38:16.920
keep that trail arm bent longer. Now he wasn't able to coordinate ground

600
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:17.840
contact and figured out how

601
00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:22.710
to work his the release stuff into it yet but overall the pivot definitely

602
00:38:22.710 --> 00:38:23.440
improved.

603
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:35.620
So then the work the timing of the release we got the feel of that side bend

604
00:38:35.620 --> 00:38:36.400
and then just did

605
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:41.360
the push ball drill to feel the arms kind of extend later and later

606
00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:50.740
and then this was kind of the combo of putting it together so a little bit of

607
00:38:50.740 --> 00:38:52.320
side bend and then

608
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:58.450
feeling the push ball on the way through. So while we ended in kind of more of

609
00:38:58.450 --> 00:39:00.480
a step release drill

610
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.040
it was way better than any of the release drills he was doing beforehand and

611
00:39:04.040 --> 00:39:04.720
that was because we

612
00:39:04.720 --> 00:39:10.000
used the side bend and basically staying in the posture to help coordinate the

613
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:10.800
arm timing you

614
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:13.400
had already been practicing or the arm movements you had already been

615
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:14.000
practicing.

616
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:24.330
Okay so hopefully that gets your brain thinking about loss of posture and early

617
00:39:24.330 --> 00:39:24.720
extension.

618
00:39:24.720 --> 00:39:32.160
Here was a swing submitted from one of our coaches and he was talking about his

619
00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:32.560
student

620
00:39:32.560 --> 00:39:38.090
struggling with early extension and shanking the ball. So I'm going to walk you

621
00:39:38.090 --> 00:39:38.800
through some of my

622
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:49.200
favorite stuff and we'll look at this here on the actual analyzer. So usually

623
00:39:49.200 --> 00:39:51.040
there's not a ton

624
00:39:51.040 --> 00:39:57.050
with the face on view as far as how it relates to shanking the ball. This was a

625
00:39:57.050 --> 00:39:59.120
little better

626
00:39:59.120 --> 00:40:04.240
because it was high speed. This was him doing a K vest. All right let me pull

627
00:40:04.240 --> 00:40:05.520
up the analyzer.

628
00:40:05.520 --> 00:40:12.960
Okay hold on.

629
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:25.520
Okay so hopefully you can let's pull up those two down the line.

630
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:35.760
Okay so

631
00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:46.480
so we can see the early extension and even though this was a decent strike we

632
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:49.200
'll talk about why

633
00:40:49.200 --> 00:40:54.000
he would have trouble shanking the wall and what's apparent in that movement.

634
00:40:55.040 --> 00:41:01.680
So here's working on staying down in his posture with his early extension.

635
00:41:01.680 --> 00:41:06.880
So he does a better job of staying down and you can see this wasn't a shank but

636
00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:07.520
man is that

637
00:41:07.520 --> 00:41:12.390
flirting with shanking. You can see the hosel is right out by the golf ball he

638
00:41:12.390 --> 00:41:13.200
hit that just a few

639
00:41:13.200 --> 00:41:20.080
millimeters away from the heel there. Okay so one of the things that I'll do

640
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:25.480
basically this falls in my mind this falls into the category of low point

641
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:26.000
control.

642
00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:29.600
This golfer is unaware of where the club is bottoming out.

643
00:41:29.600 --> 00:41:34.790
So what I'm going to do we're going to look at it a couple different ways. I'm

644
00:41:34.790 --> 00:41:35.200
going to draw

645
00:41:35.200 --> 00:41:40.070
some reference lines. When I'm talking to the students I'm going to talk to

646
00:41:40.070 --> 00:41:42.240
them about well

647
00:41:42.240 --> 00:41:45.840
there's two ways to shank it either the club face is coming in wildly open or

648
00:41:46.560 --> 00:41:52.300
the hosel is like the club is too far away from you. It's moving that way. It's

649
00:41:52.300 --> 00:41:53.440
not fat, thin,

650
00:41:53.440 --> 00:42:02.160
it's moving too far away from you. So then what I'll do is I'll take it up and

651
00:42:02.160 --> 00:42:04.240
I put that one line

652
00:42:07.040 --> 00:42:16.800
it's running a tiny bit slow there we go. Okay so the camera moves it's not

653
00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:18.560
quite on a tripod

654
00:42:18.560 --> 00:42:22.800
this one might be a little bit better. Yeah so this looks like it's on a tripod

655
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:23.840
so now

656
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:34.800
nothing's moving but as a result of his swing pattern his hands get much closer

657
00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:36.320
to the golf ball

658
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:40.960
then where they were at start that means that in order to not hit the hosel he

659
00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:41.440
would have to

660
00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:47.330
raise them higher to pick up that slack. When he starts staying down in his

661
00:42:47.330 --> 00:42:48.640
posture the hands

662
00:42:48.640 --> 00:42:55.010
move out in the club head follow suit in order to not hit it fat he's gonna sh

663
00:42:55.010 --> 00:42:56.320
ank the ball. So

664
00:42:56.320 --> 00:43:03.050
now there's a couple main questions I would have the student think through. One

665
00:43:03.050 --> 00:43:04.400
would be is your

666
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.600
upper body moving closer to the golf ball. Nope his is actually moving further

667
00:43:07.600 --> 00:43:07.920
away.

668
00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:15.700
Is the pelvis moving in closer to the golf ball? Yes his is moving a bit closer

669
00:43:15.700 --> 00:43:16.640
to the golf ball so

670
00:43:16.640 --> 00:43:20.300
weight distribution might be one way to control this but then I would talk

671
00:43:20.300 --> 00:43:21.120
about well what are

672
00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:25.150
some of the other factors and I would talk about the shoulder movement either

673
00:43:25.150 --> 00:43:26.720
moving the hands out

674
00:43:26.720 --> 00:43:33.790
or the in his case left arm straightening too much too soon. So what I would

675
00:43:33.790 --> 00:43:35.520
normally do is I would

676
00:43:35.520 --> 00:43:41.930
then work on trying to get more aware of where the ground contact was. So that

677
00:43:41.930 --> 00:43:43.760
would look.

678
00:43:52.160 --> 00:43:57.710
I'll pull them up here in a second. I don't think I, maybe I put them in the

679
00:43:57.710 --> 00:43:58.800
analyzer.

680
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:06.320
Okay I will pull them up here in a second but there's two different,

681
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:11.680
we'll go back to the analyzers. There's two different things that I would do.

682
00:44:15.520 --> 00:44:23.760
I would, I've got the yoga block here. First I'd just help him be aware of the

683
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:24.560
space so I would

684
00:44:24.560 --> 00:44:29.560
probably put either the shank gate or because he's on a mat. I would put a yoga

685
00:44:29.560 --> 00:44:31.520
block right here

686
00:44:31.520 --> 00:44:40.390
and then if he was to do that same swing you could see coming into the golf

687
00:44:40.390 --> 00:44:41.680
ball it would be very

688
00:44:41.680 --> 00:44:46.990
close and might catch the yoga block when he actually shanks it. Like in this

689
00:44:46.990 --> 00:44:48.400
one over here

690
00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:54.800
it would actually probably hit it. The other thing I might do I have a pull

691
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:55.520
noodle on the

692
00:44:55.520 --> 00:45:00.530
end of a stick and I would put the, I would stand in front of him holding the

693
00:45:00.530 --> 00:45:02.080
stick this way and

694
00:45:02.080 --> 00:45:05.540
basically not letting his hands get closer to the golf ball and just asking him

695
00:45:05.540 --> 00:45:06.320
well how was he

696
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:11.190
controlling it. The whole goal is to figure out how to control the weight of

697
00:45:11.190 --> 00:45:11.920
the club or

698
00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:19.440
in his case where his hands are and I would start with 3D space but the goal is

699
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:20.080
to get it down to

700
00:45:20.080 --> 00:45:25.870
ground contact. So then I take my, my face spray and I would put two lines on

701
00:45:25.870 --> 00:45:26.960
the ground. I call

702
00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:31.360
it a bowling alley and I say I, I want you to hit gutter balls on the inside

703
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:33.520
lane. So basically

704
00:45:33.520 --> 00:45:38.650
he would set up to a golf ball in the middle of that bowling alley and I'd say

705
00:45:38.650 --> 00:45:39.600
and I'd challenge

706
00:45:39.600 --> 00:45:44.950
him to make ground contact and make the divots over on this side not on that

707
00:45:44.950 --> 00:45:47.600
side because basically

708
00:45:47.600 --> 00:45:53.790
when he's coming through he would, when he shanks it he would be making ground

709
00:45:53.790 --> 00:45:54.560
contact

710
00:45:54.560 --> 00:46:03.530
too far away. So that, that's a couple go-tos. I'll pull them into the power

711
00:46:03.530 --> 00:46:05.040
point when I upload it

712
00:46:05.040 --> 00:46:12.400
but I've pictures of those two drills that I use very, very often. So I've

713
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:14.160
actually got

714
00:46:15.680 --> 00:46:23.520
here's one example with our new overhead camera looking at how this shank thing

715
00:46:23.520 --> 00:46:26.080
works. So if I

716
00:46:26.080 --> 00:46:32.590
go up to the top I think I frame by frame it towards the end. Okay so you can

717
00:46:32.590 --> 00:46:33.920
see over here

718
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:43.360
on the right this is really, I know not everyone has a great studio like this

719
00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:49.760
but it's really helpful for showing a student why that's going to shank and why

720
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:50.240
they're hitting

721
00:46:50.240 --> 00:46:55.280
it on the heel. They can start to see that oh because of where the clubhead is

722
00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:56.240
it's going to make

723
00:46:56.240 --> 00:47:06.020
contact on this inside part of the club right there. So that helps clarify all

724
00:47:06.020 --> 00:47:06.720
right if I put

725
00:47:06.720 --> 00:47:18.730
these sticks on the ground you'll see that he's going to make contact with the

726
00:47:18.730 --> 00:47:20.000
outside stick.

727
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:22.960
Looks like it's crashing a little bit.

728
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:34.880
All right so anyway let's jump, might have to close this and reopen it let me

729
00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:35.840
go to the powerpoint

730
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:54.560
again. Okay so back to the second example so is or sorry that's the end of that

731
00:47:54.560 --> 00:47:55.440
shank example

732
00:47:56.400 --> 00:48:05.840
and here's where I put them. Okay so again looking from this top down view

733
00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:16.720
if I zoom it in or speed it up just a little bit you'll see it's a great view

734
00:48:16.720 --> 00:48:17.520
of what's

735
00:48:17.520 --> 00:48:23.110
happening for most golfers when they shank. Now that I have kind of this

736
00:48:23.110 --> 00:48:25.760
overhead camera I'd say

737
00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:35.340
the vast majority of the time the shank is caused more from the whole path of

738
00:48:35.340 --> 00:48:37.440
the club and the

739
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:47.370
hosel I'm not sure why it's not playing. Let's see if the second one plays

740
00:48:47.370 --> 00:48:48.640
maybe it's just a bad file.

741
00:48:48.640 --> 00:48:59.850
But I would say here we go so it's that same file that was playing so I guess

742
00:48:59.850 --> 00:49:00.240
the other

743
00:49:00.240 --> 00:49:06.980
file is just not working but this is what when I show a shanker from overhead I

744
00:49:06.980 --> 00:49:10.080
'd say nine times

745
00:49:10.080 --> 00:49:14.940
out of ten it's more this model here where it's the club is just swinging too

746
00:49:14.940 --> 00:49:16.400
far out away from them

747
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:23.510
their hands have gotten further away and it's going to hit the heel and so oft

748
00:49:23.510 --> 00:49:24.880
entimes that's what I was

749
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:32.240
going to show. So let me bring this back to

750
00:49:32.240 --> 00:49:46.480
so I'll frequently use a video to show you remember what we saw with with Ed

751
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:47.120
student who

752
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:54.080
shanks the ball a little bit. Well now if I put a line just outside his hands

753
00:49:54.080 --> 00:49:55.520
you'll see

754
00:49:55.520 --> 00:50:04.320
as he comes down to the golf ball compared to where that was.

755
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:18.160
Usually because it's going to be a little bit bowed I'd say about a finger's

756
00:50:18.160 --> 00:50:19.200
width is pretty

757
00:50:19.200 --> 00:50:25.220
normal but if you remember or if you skip back the other gentleman who was

758
00:50:25.220 --> 00:50:26.880
complaining of shanking

759
00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:32.160
the wall his hand was probably out there so it would have to go up it's really

760
00:50:32.160 --> 00:50:34.000
reinforcing his

761
00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:43.230
early extension pattern it would have to go up in order to like if the hands

762
00:50:43.230 --> 00:50:44.080
are that close you're

763
00:50:44.080 --> 00:50:49.940
going to shank it unless you stood up so he's feeding the the pattern. I'm

764
00:50:49.940 --> 00:50:51.680
going to go back to the

765
00:50:52.480 --> 00:51:05.340
PowerPoint. Okay so then the second question was more on this student and we

766
00:51:05.340 --> 00:51:07.520
can see okay he sent

767
00:51:07.520 --> 00:51:14.560
in no real description just some graphs and some swings so first I'll let you

768
00:51:14.560 --> 00:51:14.880
kind of

769
00:51:15.680 --> 00:51:23.270
look at the the graphs here is obviously the kinematic sequence red is the pel

770
00:51:23.270 --> 00:51:24.640
vis green is the trunk

771
00:51:24.640 --> 00:51:30.800
blue is the left arm brown is the club you can see some stuff in there maybe

772
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:33.040
and then this is looking

773
00:51:33.040 --> 00:51:40.240
at the pelvis bends it looks like so red is rotation green is bend and then

774
00:51:40.240 --> 00:51:41.840
blue is side bend

775
00:51:43.200 --> 00:51:48.640
either calibration thing or not a lot of side bend there at impact this is

776
00:51:48.640 --> 00:51:49.840
again looking at just the

777
00:51:49.840 --> 00:52:01.220
pelvis bend these are looking at the upper body rotation and then this is

778
00:52:01.220 --> 00:52:04.480
looking at the x-factor

779
00:52:07.600 --> 00:52:13.120
so now we've got a couple of his swing

780
00:52:13.120 --> 00:52:24.320
so I'll just let it play through

781
00:52:33.200 --> 00:52:37.920
well actually now that we know we saw the graphs that's where we needed this

782
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.760
now we'll head over to the analyzer

783
00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:50.400
all right so where's

784
00:52:57.760 --> 00:53:03.600
okay

785
00:53:03.600 --> 00:53:16.060
so we go up to the top of the swing it's almost like these uh these swings were

786
00:53:16.060 --> 00:53:16.800
planted for me

787
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:24.240
based on today's topics so as we go up to the top of the swing we can see a

788
00:53:24.240 --> 00:53:25.360
little bit of straightening

789
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:34.080
of that right leg and we can see right up in through there you'll see like a

790
00:53:34.080 --> 00:53:35.920
little excessive hinge

791
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:45.440
this part of his lower back so those are two indications that he's not really

792
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:46.560
using the deep

793
00:53:46.560 --> 00:53:54.800
core through there he's using more superficial back like the lat and the quad

794
00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:56.960
in order to transfer

795
00:53:56.960 --> 00:54:05.440
that force so then as he comes through here you can to me it looks like again

796
00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:06.400
he's not really

797
00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:12.320
connected there in the core there's a lot of good pieces and um if we look from

798
00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:14.640
this view he's

799
00:54:14.640 --> 00:54:20.230
he's getting some good shaft rotation down through there um but because the

800
00:54:20.230 --> 00:54:22.000
core isn't totally

801
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:28.930
involved he's going to have a little bit more of that lead arm shrug um instead

802
00:54:28.930 --> 00:54:30.080
of the ribcage

803
00:54:30.080 --> 00:54:36.830
pulling around it's the shoulder pulling away from the ground uh and as a

804
00:54:36.830 --> 00:54:39.680
result of that shoulder

805
00:54:39.680 --> 00:54:45.410
shrugging he is a little bit more um internal rotation on this side so i think

806
00:54:45.410 --> 00:54:47.360
that the root of

807
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:53.680
his issues is trying to get some of the deep core involved so trying to get um

808
00:54:53.680 --> 00:54:56.000
a little bit more

809
00:54:56.000 --> 00:55:01.460
ab and ribcage rotation on the way through uh you might be able to kind of

810
00:55:01.460 --> 00:55:03.040
force it by working on

811
00:55:03.040 --> 00:55:10.230
that trail arm going into internal rotation or by working on some of the

812
00:55:10.230 --> 00:55:11.280
connection not quite

813
00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:15.520
having as much shrug feeling a little bit more of the arms getting pulled out

814
00:55:15.520 --> 00:55:17.760
um but if we go back to

815
00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:22.880
his kinematic sequence

816
00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:34.240
and his uh pelvis graph um you can see that there's some little uh kind of

817
00:55:34.240 --> 00:55:38.790
i don't want to say dysfunctions but there's some little indications that the

818
00:55:38.790 --> 00:55:40.480
pelvis is out of order

819
00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:46.440
but not uh nothing grand it shows up a lot more in the video and it shows up

820
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:49.200
more um when he's trying

821
00:55:49.200 --> 00:55:59.090
to swing full like he would with a driver compared to with the iron he's

822
00:55:59.090 --> 00:56:00.000
probably

823
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:10.350
you'll see not quite as exaggerated that um lower body hinge and then on the

824
00:56:10.350 --> 00:56:12.000
way through

825
00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:19.760
a little bit better ribcage rotation and a little less of the lead shoulder

826
00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:20.480
shrug so

827
00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:26.680
the fact that it shows up a bit more with the driver helps me identify that it

828
00:56:26.680 --> 00:56:27.680
's probably more

829
00:56:27.680 --> 00:56:33.550
related to um power production and possibly positive you know increasing the

830
00:56:33.550 --> 00:56:34.800
angle of attack

831
00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:42.180
um but that's uh the number one thing that kind of jumps out for me is more uh

832
00:56:42.180 --> 00:56:42.800
that deep core

833
00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:47.680
function so i'd probably you know look at his breathing look at his tva um but

834
00:56:47.680 --> 00:56:48.240
that might be

835
00:56:48.240 --> 00:56:52.130
stuff to be easier to do in the gym otherwise if i was if i was confident he

836
00:56:52.130 --> 00:56:53.280
was strong enough to

837
00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:58.560
do it in the gym then i would probably go after um trail arm and uh lead

838
00:56:58.560 --> 00:57:00.320
shoulder connection