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Today we're covering some really
interesting research on grip 

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pressure, how tightly you're 
gripping the club. 

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And we're not just talking about
like it's set U like how tight. 

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Your grip should be but. 
All throughout the swing. 

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Like what about a transition at 
the top of the back swing? 

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What about an impact? 
We have a really great study 

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we're looking at with Liam 
Mucklow. 

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We're talking about his work 
that he's done with pressure 

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sensors into grips. 
I looked at high handicappers, 

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people that hook the ball, slice
the ball, and pros. 

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So really good data. 
I'm super excited to dive into 

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this with him. 
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All right, let's go do it. 

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OK. 
Yeah, all. 

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Right. 
OK, so here's like, I think the 

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biggest thing, biggest simple 
thing is like, oh, but I was 

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supposed to hold it as a three 
out of 10. 

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Like, OK, well, there's a lot of
layers to feel back there, but 

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what I've got here, this graph 
on the right, this is showing 

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percentage of maximum grip 
pressure for that golfer type. 

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OK, so we got our legend up here
with you, right? 

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So we have our playing 
professional. 

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We've got the person that 
chronically fights a Hulk. 

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We've got the high handicapper 
that just struggles with contact

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in general. 
And then we've got, you know, 

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like your classic slicer. 
Yeah. 

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So first thing I want to do is 
take a look at at setup. 

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So if we look at the height 
kneecapper and the slicer, well,

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First off, they're way below 3 
out of 10. 

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They're like below 1 out of 10. 
They're barely holding it. 

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OK, so they've got a little 
overboard there. 

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Even even the the hooker here is
like below 25%, they're below 3 

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out of 10. 
Now we get here, it's like a 

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four 4 1/2 out of 10 for the 
Tour Pro. 

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So this is to me, this is where 
it gets interesting. 

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Take a look at the grip 
strengths over here. 

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So this is from the PowerPoint. 
So the average combined grip 

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strength of those two hands is 
276 lbs. 

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Now we times that by the actual,
you know, amount of pressure, 

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you know, the percentage of Max 
pressure. 

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And I got like 124 lbs OK, like 
not too far off a three out of 

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10. 
But what I don't think amateur 

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golfers ever take into account 
is the person who's saying they 

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feel like it's a 3 out of 10 
hits golf balls all day every 

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day and hits them hard. 
And like, this is what they do. 

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So they've got if anyone out 
there has ever actually shook 

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hands with a tour pro, they got 
a pretty serious grip. 

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Yeah, within group 2 we had we 
had one guy who competes in long

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drive, which to be honest, I 
think it kind of skewed the grip

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strength a little higher than 
what we would normally see. 

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The other thing I'll notice so 
when you see this differential 

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13.4 lbs, that means on average 
the lead hand, the left hand for

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the right-handed golfer was 
about 13 1/2 lbs stronger than 

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the right, huh. 
So anyway, we're let's go let's 

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go back to this 124 number. 
OK OK now we're down here at 

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our, you know, high handicap or 
poor contact player. 

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Well, their Max is only 147, so 
if they actually wanted to match

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what, you know, what the tour 
Pro is doing from, I'll call it 

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like a global perspective, not a
three out of 10, but 124 lbs. 

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They'll be way up here at like a
nine out of 10. 

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Got it. 
So got it. 

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Yeah, like obviously there's a 
lot there to digest, but I think

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to me the simple basic is like 
99% of amateur golfers would be 

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better off to squeeze the club 
tighter in a dress. 

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Got it. 
So we've got, we've got this 

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aspect of obviously our 
professional golfers are 

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swinging harder than the 
amateurs that you're, you're 

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talking about too, right? 
Like I swing faster. 

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In there, they're gripping it 
harder to to set up. 

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Do you think it's, do you think 
they swing faster because they 

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grip it harder or they grip it 
harder because they swing 

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faster? 
Man, that that's the toughest 

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part about this study of 
pressure because there's also 

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like this thing you don't know, 
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graph back up and we'll start to
talk our way through it. 

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But it's like there's certain 
points where the golfer is 

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applying pressure to the handle 
of the club and there's certain 

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points where the handle of the 
club is applying pressure to the

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golfer. 
OK, so, yeah, so it gets, you 

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know, there, there's some Gray 
area now. 

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I, I, I think you know, to me, I
think, you know, there's a, 

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there's a couple things at play.
What, what I've noticed now 

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since having this information, 
starting to have dialogue with 

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amateur players about it. 
I think one of the most 

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important things is that there 
has to be a match between the 

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grip pressure application and 
the resultant body movements of 

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the player. 
So I don't think you'll be able 

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to make an exact match to the 
pressure distribution pattern 

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unless you move your body in a 
similar way. 

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And if we look into some of the 
individual swings, we can kind 

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of dive a little bit deeper into
there. 

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But if, if we're not changing 
body movements, but we're 

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changing grip pressure, it's 
quite likely that the club will 

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be out of sync with the body and
we won't get that increased 

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performance. 
I do feel, you know, again, for 

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these amateurs, 99% of them, 
we're going to be better off 

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squeezing it tighter. 
It's so loose that it's like 

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they're losing energy created by
our body. 

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And it's the last, you know, 
it's our only connection to the 

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club. 
And if that's not secure, we're 

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going to have energy that we 
generate with our body leak out 

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and not transferred to the club,
you know. 

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So I think, I think that's one 
of the most important for the 

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conceptual things, I guess. 
So is it that we're we're doing 

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so much work with our body to 
try to swing hard, but then 

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we're gripping it too lightly? 
So the club is is the club is 

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actually controlling it instead 
of our hands? 

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Is that a way to say it? 
Yeah. 

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No, I, I like that, especially 
when we look, I'm going to throw

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up another. 
I'm going to throw up another 

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image here. 
Let's look at the let's look at 

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the high Handycamper. 
OK, now this is getting so this 

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is getting a little heavy here. 
Let me just get the slideshow a 

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little like, so here's like the 
latest round of I don't know, 

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process and we'll call it there.
There is there's so much data in

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this study from the swing 
catalyst motion plate to the 

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full body gears. 
We use Forsythe GC quad for this

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one, plus the sensor grip. 
So this to me is super 

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fascinating. 
It's overlaid with the kinematic

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sequence. 
And so we've kind of put these 

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little body position avatars to 
try and help people that don't 

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look at this stuff every day 
understand where we're at. 

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And I think this is super 
fascinating. 

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So the orange line is showing me
the rotational speed of the 

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club, OK, when it's down here 
where my, I'm not sure if can 

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you see my cursor right now? 
Yeah, there. 

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We go. 
I can, yeah. 

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So when it's down here, that's 
the club is rotating away from 

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the target, OK, It's up here, 
it's rotating towards a target. 

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And so we see this, you know, 
super, super, super low growth 

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pressure. 
And as the club starts to 

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accelerate to me, and I'm just 
telling you how I read this, I 

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can't tell you if it's right, 
This is just what I'm kind of 

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the way I see it, the group 
pressure starts to ramp up a 

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little bit as the club picks up 
some speed. 

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Now right here where we get, you
know, that line farthest down 

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below the horizontal axis, 
that's the fastest the club is 

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rotating back away from the 
target. 

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And I'm like right at that 
moment in time, it's like this 

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high handicapper just grabs on 
for life and they're along for 

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the ride. 
OK, you know, And then if, you 

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know, we look transition to the 
downswing, Well, whichever line 

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is highest up here is rotating 
fastest to the target. 

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Well, right from the beginning, 
that club is rotating the faster

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the target than any other part 
of the body. 

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And it's like, yeah, they're 
gloves leading the way, and 

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they're just squeezing on for 
dear life, hanging on for a 

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ride, you know, kind of like, I 
don't know, maybe your first 

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trip on a roller coaster when 
you were 12 years old. 

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I'm just hanging on trying to 
stay in the car. 

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OK. 
So it's just, yeah, really high 

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pressure from like kind of, I 
don't know if it's arm parallel 

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on the backswing. 
Give or take somewhere between 

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shaft parallel and arm parallel 
in the backswing, yeah. 

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All the way through impact, it's
it's kind of just grip. 

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Then then they decide to grip. 
Yeah. 

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And then it's like then they 
they lock on like, you know, 

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this, you know, with their 
maximum grip pressure. 

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And what's also interesting, 
we'll look at a couple other 

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ones. 
This it kind of the circular 

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dotted line, that's the trail 
hand, the right hand, because 

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this dash line, that's the lead 
hand, the left hand. 

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The high handicappers were also 
the only group that had higher 

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pressure was the bottom hand. 
Every other group had higher 

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pressure with the top. 
Hand. 

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Interesting. 
Do they have the most rotation 

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happening? 
They had the least amount of 

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body, well that impact, they had
the least amount of body 

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rotation. 
OK, the the slicer you want to 

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you want to look at hooker or 
slicer next? 

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Let's. 
Look at hooker. 

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OK, so so the hooker started, 
you know, with the grip pressure

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that was closest to the amount 
to the professional. 

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Remember the professionals were 
way up here, still about double 

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and it's a little bit more 
controlled. 

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But again, we see this same 
thing keep happening when this 

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club is it maximum rotational 
speed away from the target. 

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It's like within every group, 
there's this little spike in 

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grip pressure. 
Now what what we noticed and 

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it's it's pretty difficult to 
tease out of this grass there 

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was. 
So well, First off, let's take a

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look. 
This dotted line right when the 

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golfer starts down, this hooker 
really starts to squeeze hard 

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with the left hand. 
The right hand goes up a little 

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bit, but not nearly as much as 
the left. 

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OK, So what we saw was a real 
ramp up in left hand grip 

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pressure, but very low pelvis 
rotation. 

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So it's like they're squeezing 
the club, dropping it down this 

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way and instead of rotating, 
they're kind of just sliding the

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hips forward, you know, side 
bending away from the target, 

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which makes sense for, to me 
anyway, for the club being, you 

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know, dumped behind. 
Yep, yeah, it's. 

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Way behind them and now, you 
know, in here you can see we're 

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coming up on impact with shaft 
parallel on the way down and 

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it's again just this is the way 
I read it. 

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I'm look, it's like the golfer 
knows I got the club stuck so 

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far behind and it's going so far
inside out. 

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It's like, Oh my God, I better 
flip it back to square with the 

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right hand right. 
You see that, you know, I got 

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ourself that my whole life so. 
Got it. 

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So, you know, kind of 
interesting there. 

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I'm sorry, I guess I need I need
a clarification. 

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Could you define? 
Total pressure again cuz cuz the

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total pressure of the high 
handicap was higher. 

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So I'm missing I'm missing 
something mentally here? 

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Total pressure. 
No, no. 

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So that we'll talk about I got 
AI, got a baseball back here. 

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So so we take the sensor grip 
club. 

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Yeah. 
And then it's like, you know, 

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the software prompts, squeeze it
as tight as you can in the left 

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hand. 
OK, OK, yeah. 

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And then squeeze it as tight as 
you can in the right hand and 

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then squeeze it as tight as you 
can with both hands. 

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Got it. 
And that, that and that's what 

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determines the 100%. 
That's also what sets the split 

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location for lead, hand and 
trail. 

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OK. 
Pretty important stuff. 

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Now we'll go just because this 
is not complicated enough, we're

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going to go back to this high 
handicapper because I want you 

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to notice, Yeah, they actually 
get up above 100% here with the 

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right hand. 
OK, Yeah. 

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And, and that's what I was 
talking about is there's periods

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in time when the club is pushing
back into the player. 

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And so that's how they're able 
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what they could actually just 
stand there and squeeze it with.

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Interesting. 
OK. 

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That makes sense. 
I I get it. 

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Yeah, Yeah. 
Especially if they're, you know,

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as I kind of put it along for 
the ride. 

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And that's that's not a good 
thing though, like being able to

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produce more than 100% of force 
that that's not a helpful thing.

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Well, we didn't see it happen 
with any good players in this. 

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OK, OK, so. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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Now, you know, the other thing I
think is important for people 

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out there to know too is like, 
this is brand new technology, 

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you know, And so as we use it 
more, there may be ways we could

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do more effective calibration. 
So one of the things we're 

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playing around with now, this 
came from Sasho when we were 

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talking over in England, is 
actually to put the the club at 

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a gripping vise. 
So I can not only grab it, but I

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can kind of twist it. 
And I think that might get that 

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100% up a little bit higher. 
Got it. 

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So, So yeah, with the, you know,
with the with the player that, 

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you know, fights the hook, we 
saw, you know, very low body 

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rotation in the first half of 
the downswing and an increase in

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lead hand pressure. 
Yep. 

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So that that was kind of a 
common trait across the sample 

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size. 
Yep. 

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When we get here to the slicer, 
you know, again, it's like 

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starts with lower pressure. 
This is more of kind of a steady

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ramp up throughout the whole 
backswing. 

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And then when I, you know, when 
we're looking at both of the 

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body movements and the grip 
pressure, we see this right 

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hand, the the circular dotted 
line, we see it really kind of 

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ramp up and I'm, and we saw a 
lot of pelvis rotation. 

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So again, I just start picturing
A golfer spinning quickly with 

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their body and pushing hard with
the right hand. 

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I'm like, Oh yeah, OK, well, 
let's slice all day. 

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That makes sense, yeah. 
And they're doing it too early, 

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right with the right hand they 
that's why that bump is early 

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with the. 
Gets it out early. 

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Yeah, you got it. 
So now hopefully this one starts

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to make a little bit more sense.
So you know, again, my 

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interpretation of this is we've 
got much higher growth pressure 

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to start with and compared to 
the other groups, relatively, 

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even relatively constant as it 
go throughout the backswing. 

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Now they're the the 
professionals, the only people 

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in the group that we saw. 
Oh man, Holy smokes. 

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I just realized I have this 
slide title wrong and it's a 

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slicer. 
It is not a slicer. 

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Sorry, folks. 
We see this little peek right at

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transition and I believe the 
peak is because the golfer has 

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to squeeze the club in order to 
stop it and have it get ready to

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change direction. 
And then we see, you know, the 

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only group, this was the only 
group of all of them that had a 

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reduction in grip pressure early
in transition. 

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So when I think about it, that's
what allows me to rotate the 

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body and kind of let the club, 
it's all behind the body. 

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You know, there's a million 
different things. 

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If you want to call it leg or 
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whoever wants to put those 
labels on it. 

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But that's just kind of what I 
felt like I saw. 

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And you know, once we get to 
around, you know, with the 

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different people, it varied a 
little bit. 

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But between lead arm parallel 
and shaft parallel, we see a big

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ramp up in the grip pressure 
again. 

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Yeah. 
And then for the last little bit

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on approach to the ball, we see 
it fairly neutral, fairly calm, 

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which also makes sense. 
You know, I think about how good

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those professional players are 
maintaining, you know, minimal 

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club face rotation through the 
striking so. 

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Interesting. 
It's so different than the other

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golfers, the professor, it's so 
flat. 

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It's so. 
Yeah, yeah, very different. 

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That's where we, you know, this 
latest round was trying to 

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visualize it over the course of 
the Gulf Point, you know, like 

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in in time, not just in kind of 
like, you know, because the the 

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time between each of these 
positions is definitely not 

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created equal, you know, our P1 
to P6, whatever you want to 

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look. 
Yeah. 

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So, yeah, like there's, there's 
a lot of differences. 

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There's a lot going on. 
You know, this is kind of back 

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to the normal visualization. 
I think the big thing like if we

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look at we look at the high 
handicappers, the first thing I 

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look at is how they're the only 
group that's trailhand dominant.

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So like if I'm, you know, if I'm
a high handicapper, what do I 

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make of that? 
Well, the first thing I would 

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start to do would be maybe just 
take your wedge and go do some 

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left hand only swings, you know,
and because it could be #1 get 

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the left hand grip strength 
higher. 

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So in that, in that group, when 
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dynamometer, the right hand was 
stronger to begin with. 

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So let's get the left hand grip 
strength higher and let's learn 

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how to rotate our body and use 
it that way. 

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Yep. 
When I think about stuff for the

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the slicer here where in 
transition I've got that real 

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spike, early spike with the 
right hand, I think about 

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Hogan's three finger drill. 
Well, let's just take them right

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off the club, you know, and if 
they're not touching the club, I

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think it's probably harder to 
apply pressure to it. 

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That would make sense. 
Yeah, yeah, right. 

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And you know, they're already 
rotating the body, so maybe that

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gives the club the chance to 
kind of fall behind the body 

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instead of get thrown out in 
front of it. 

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If I'm if I'm here with the with
the hooker, I would say this is 

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gets tricky. 
It's kind of two things. 

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First, if we look at their right
hand grip pressure right here 

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and then we look at the pros 
right here. 

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I would want to see them kind of
do it the opposite right. 

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They're increasing left hand 
grip pressure decreasing right 

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hand as opposed to the pros 
decreasing left hand increasing 

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right now It can be a mind 
melter for sure, but I would 

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squeeze it tighter with the 
right hand in your hips early. 

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Remember they they had low hip 
rotation sliding back this way. 

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Yep. 
So turn and squeeze it with the 

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right hand. 
You might stop dumping that 

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thing so far back behind you. 
A lot of graphs, man. 

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A lot. 
Of no, it's, it's super 

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interesting. 
OK, so I guess we all can grip 

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it harder at setup, right? 
That's pretty universal. 

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I am very comfortable with that,
yes, OK. 

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I guess you you gave some 
interventions there of like 

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things that you can think about.
Have you seen is working on grip

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pressure like does that work as 
an intervention? 

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Does that change movement 
patterns or is it difficult that

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going that direction? 
It can for sure. 

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You know, I think I think a lot 
of it for the coaches out there 

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is gauge the athletic skill and 
coordination of the client. 

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If that person hasn't played any
other sports, if their body 

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awareness isn't great, you might
want to develop that stuff first

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before you, you know, start 
trying to ask some of these 

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complex athletic movements that 
are all going to be kind of 

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internal cues. 
The analogy I used when I was 

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presenting this stuff last week 
is my partner in in the baseball

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stuff, Mikey Gibbs. 
Played professional baseball, 

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college national champion, third
round draft pick, highly 

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coordinated, high level of body 
awareness. 

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We're about to play golf a 
couple weeks ago and he just 

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said, yeah, I'm just going to 
feel like my right hand is kind 

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of relaxed. 
It drove it as straight as I've 

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ever seen it. 
Gave up a couple yards, played 

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eighteen holes with 1G ball is 
pretty impressive. 

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Nice. 
My wife helps him proofread all 

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the articles and stuff that I 
write. 

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So just after we finished the 
article for Golf magazine, Wendy

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went over to the range to try 
and apply some of the grip 

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pressure stuff. 
Her background is in sailing. 

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I think she shanked 3 balls, 
accidentally threw her club once

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and then came home upset and 
said this is crap, I'm not 

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getting this. 
Yeah, you know, you kind of got 

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to gauge who you're with. 
And I think, you know, to me 

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what, what I find fascinating 
about is we've just never had 

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this intro, you know, And so 
the, the, the purpose of this 

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study was really just to try and
gather some information. 

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See, is there any common 
tendencies, you know, in these 

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golfer subsets, which I I was 
quite surprised in the 

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similarities, you know, and 
then, you know, from there, 

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Yeah. 
Like, let's just get this 

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information out there to as many
coaches, as many golfers as we 

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can start to collect thoughts 
from, you know, their thought 

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leaders in the industry and see 
how can we use this? 

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Can we use this to, to move 
things forward? 

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For sure. 
Is it? 

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Yeah. 
What what is the new tech or 

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what like what do you? 
What's this new sensor that 

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allows you to measure it? 
So it's called, it's called 

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sensor grip. 
Let me get let me get a picture 

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of him up here. 
OK, kind of show you guys what 

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it looks like here. 
Because the problem has always 

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been measuring this, right? 
Like that's always been the, 

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yeah, always been the issue, 
yeah. 

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So you can, you can kind of see 
a little bit here. 

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We use a, it's a grip Master 
leather wrap grip that goes over

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top of the sensors. 
So if you're familiar with how 

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those grips are kind of like a 
wind or a lizard skin grip, they

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have like a like a foam rubber 
core that goes on and then it's 

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wrapped on top. 
So the foam rubber core goes on,

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they wrap the the sensor wires 
around and they put the grip on 

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top. 
And then you have a wire that 

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comes out. 
In fact, the new one that they 

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just released, instead of the 
wire going all the way back to 

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the computer, it goes to a 
little thing on your hip and 

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then transmits via Bluetooth and
the wire is a lot thinner and 

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lighter. 
So, you know, they're making 

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some pretty good, pretty good 
advancements there. 

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And this is just the rest of the
tech we use. 

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So it was taking all four of 
these and then manually 

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collating the data. 
This is an idea of kind of sort 

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of what you can, you know, their
standard interface. 

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So it it links in with a webcam.
So for us, you know, the sensor 

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grip is very accurate in 
denoting impact time. 

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So we match the impact time on 
the sensor grip with the impact 

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time on the gears and use that 
as a time stamp to work back. 

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OK, so you can see here, it'll 
give you your, you know, it'll 

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give you your distribution at 
various points in the swing, top

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of the swing, lead arm, parallel
shaft, parallel impact. 

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You know, they're also now 
working on some calculations of 

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being able to extrapolate the 
net forces and applied to the 

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club as well. 
So it's, you know, like I said, 

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it's it's still not ready for 
the masses yet, but it's getting

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much closer to where I think 
you're going to start to see 

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this popping up in more golf 
academies for sure. 

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So when we're talking about the 
pressure applied, it was based 

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on your Max pressure that you 
could apply. 

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So what did you find? 
You mentioned that you did 

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measure just like strength with 
one of the, I forget the name of

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it, what you call it. 
Yeah, the dynamometer. 

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Yeah, what did the pros have? 
Also the greater like strength 

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overall as well. 
Yeah, they did. 

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So it was, let's pop this back 
up here. 

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So. 
So the professionals, whoopsie 

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professionals did have a higher 
overall grip strength. 

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Like I said, that was. 
The hook grip was closer, but 

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again, it was like I said, just 
total transparency. 

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It was a little skewed from a 
long drive competitor, you know,

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who happens to hook it, you 
know, And then as we get down, 

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the slicer was a little bit 
weaker. 

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Even though you don't see same 
age in here. 

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Obviously the age went up for 
the poor contact, which does 

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contribute to the grip strength 
going down. 

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00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:24,040
But yeah, it's a pretty, in this
small study, pretty linear 

449
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,600
relationship between group 
strength and handicap. 

450
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,800
And you know, there is a lot of 
other, you know, studies, I know

451
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,520
super speeds put some stuff out 
there. 

452
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,160
They talk about the same type of
relationship they've seen for 

453
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,080
group strength and club speed, 
which makes sense. 

454
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:43,160
You know, I, you know, in the 
physical testing world, you 

455
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:49,960
know, if I only had one test to 
do to try and gauge the overall,

456
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,480
I guess strength, health, 
whatever of a person, I would go

457
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,000
a grip strength because it just 
tied to so many other things. 

458
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:01,000
Interesting. 
It is that 276, is that a good? 

459
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,160
I'm not. 
I don't know these numbers very 

460
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,120
well. 
Is that a good number? 

461
00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:06,240
Is it really strong? 
Is that just like an average 

462
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,400
person or? 
Yeah, I mean, it's not bad. 

463
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:14,360
I guess like, I guess for 
context, that's pretty much 

464
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:18,280
where I'm at, OK, which I'm 
around £140 per hand. 

465
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:23,960
I'm 45 year old former golfer 
that has been quite lazy and 

466
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,440
sedentary the last couple years.
So, you know, it depends on 

467
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,120
where you're starting out at as 
well. 

468
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,440
When we're looking at, you know,
I would expect a competitive 

469
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:39,320
long driver to be more in their 
350 to 360 LB ratio. 

470
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:45,200
Yeah, yeah, OK. 
You know, that's kind of where 

471
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,160
Micah lives, you know, a cruise 
control club and speed around 

472
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:55,120
128 without training for golf. 
So you know, a lot of power 

473
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:59,560
there. 
You know, I think within reason 

474
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:05,480
for, again, for like 99% of the 
amateurs out there, I think more

475
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,040
is better. 
Yeah, like I like I, I don't. 

476
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,400
We're a long way from being so 
rigid with it. 

477
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,720
It's set up and in the backswing
that it's going to impede the 

478
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,120
golf swing. 
You know, I also start to think 

479
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:22,880
about other stuff. 
I remember reading more things 

480
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,360
from Doctor McKenzie about how I
believe he's proven that 

481
00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:31,720
increase in backswing speed 
results in more downswing speed.

482
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,760
And I feel like, OK, well if I'm
going to swing it back faster, 

483
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,480
the first thing I got to do is 
squeeze it tighter. 

484
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,280
I got to activate these muscles 
up through the forearm, upper 

485
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,720
arm, and even in the shoulder 
girdle and let's get everything 

486
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,080
connected and working together. 
Yeah. 

487
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,840
You know, instead of the 0 grip 
shankle, let me just take it 

488
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,920
back with my wrist and I was 
going to start chasing the club 

489
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:54,440
down with my body the whole way.
Yeah, what? 

490
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,400
What do you? 
Think is the impact. 

491
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:02,440
Of like grip size and grip like 
texture as well like on these 

492
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,400
because because obviously they 
they couldn't use their grips, 

493
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,480
right? 
So they're using the the sensor.

494
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:13,120
So yeah, what is then size? 
Well, and you know, trying to do

495
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,080
the best we could then charge 
was great. 

496
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:25,440
They they put grips on two 
different flexes of shaft for 

497
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,320
each driver, 7 iron so we're 
able to get them as close as 

498
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:34,680
possible to their own shaft. 
We adjusted the lie loft of the 

499
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:39,080
iron heads to match, you know, 
their current spec and we only 

500
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,440
brought people in that were 
using a standard size grip. 

501
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:46,760
So it does grip size matter. 
Absolutely can't tell you how. 

502
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,360
I definitely think it'll be the 
next one. 

503
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:55,240
Anecdotally, years and years and
years ago at the lab, we started

504
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,840
taking long drivers and testing 
their grip strength at 

505
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,120
different, you know, different 
diameters on the dynamometer. 

506
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,640
And then wherever they had the 
highest grip strength, we would 

507
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,960
do our best to build grips to 
match that size. 

508
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:14,160
Oh, cool. 
I think in general, I think most

509
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:20,400
people would perform better with
larger than standard grips as it

510
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,480
as we get a little bigger than a
Golf Club than the standard Golf

511
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,920
Club. 
Most of the people we test are 

512
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,040
able to actually just put more 
force through it. 

513
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,800
It you know, we're seeing, we're
seeing in the world longer 

514
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,960
afterward. 
We're seeing pretty good 

515
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,880
adoption rates into various 
sizes of jumbo mats, OK. 

516
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,680
You know, we're seeing a little 
bit more of that on on the 

517
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,720
professional tours as well. 
So here's here's what I 

518
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,520
anecdotally know about larger 
grips is that like we've 

519
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,320
traditionally been taught that 
they're going to go right 

520
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:55,760
because you can't turn them over
right? 

521
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,680
Like that's probably, I don't 
know, old, yeah, old, old 

522
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,560
stereo. 
OK. 

523
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,080
And then the second thing is 
that they. 

524
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,160
Do that. 
Because they add weight. 

525
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,920
So you just change the, the 
weight of the the club is why 

526
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,800
they do that. 
So that's like that's what I 

527
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,760
think about when I think about 
larger, larger grips a little 

528
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,960
bit. 
Well, in the in the grip size 

529
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:21,600
testing that we've done, I could
say a couple of things. 

530
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,880
One was we actually found and we
weren't talking about pressures 

531
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,480
before that technology was 
around. 

532
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,000
We found that there was no 
correlation between hand hand 

533
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:36,000
length and the grip size. 
That created maximum consistency

534
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,760
directional control on average 
the thirty person amateur 

535
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,720
population. 
And that was able to reduce 

536
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,760
dispersion by 34% by just 
changing the grip size. 

537
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,840
Wow. 
For some people it was going 

538
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,920
smaller. 
Looking back now, for example, 

539
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,320
we had one individual that had 
very, very, you know, the 

540
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,680
largest hands in the study. 
He performed best with the 

541
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,360
smallest grip, I think now total
guess. 

542
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,520
But because it was so tiny, he 
had to squeeze so hard just to 

543
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,200
keep it in there. 
If you stabilize the sweet spot,

544
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,240
I had better connectivity may 
better contact. 

545
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,480
Interesting. 
Yeah, the, the weight is a thing

546
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,600
for sure because, you know, if 
you go to a heavier weight grip 

547
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,880
and don't adjust swing weight 
properly, you're going to see, 

548
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,080
as most people do, a reduced 
closure rate. 

549
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,280
You know, you lose a little bit 
of wrist mobility and a 

550
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,840
reduction in swing weight is 
kind of a double wing that can 

551
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:36,280
create an excessive brightness. 
I got it. 

552
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,000
Oh man, I got to order. 
I'm ordering a diameter right 

553
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,440
now and that. 25 bucks on Amazon
man. 

554
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,600
And we're swapping. 
We're going to do that. 

555
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,960
I love that test. 
That seems so obvious. 

556
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:53,440
Yeah, yeah, no, it's it. 
I mean, yeah, you just make 

557
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,720
stuff up and try it. 
And as people get better, keep 

558
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,120
doing it as they don't apologize
and do something else. 

559
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,640
Are you going to do that again? 
We got to see that test come 

560
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:01,480
back. 
We got to. 

561
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,560
Yeah, no, no, no, no. 
The boys up at the lab are still

562
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:06,760
doing it. 
Absolutely OK. 

563
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,080
Oh yeah. 
So do you have a protocol then 

564
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,400
is it like you'd go different 
lengths and you test the 

565
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,800
strength and then you? 
Yeah, so different dynamometers 

566
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,720
are a little different. 
You know, they have like this 

567
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,600
little wheel where it kind of 
adjusts and scales the width of 

568
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,160
the the gripping component. 
Just kind of eyeball it with 

569
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,640
some golf grips there, OK, you 
know, so you can do it that way.

570
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,320
You know, the other thing we've 
done in terms of our fitting 

571
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,720
protocols is, you know, within 
our testing, we'll go with the 

572
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,240
length and then we go with the 
weight. 

573
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,240
And then we if we need to reduce
flex and then optimize the head 

574
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,040
and if we still feel there's 
opportunity for improved 

575
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,640
control, we actually have 5 
different size grips on the same

576
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,160
driver fitting shaft and the 
same iron fitting shaft. 

577
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,040
So we're able to do some testing
with the person, at least get 

578
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,680
some objective data. 
OK, so I think that's one, you 

579
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,760
know, other one if it's amateur 
golfers that are, you know, just

580
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,560
out there going Oh my God, 
there's there might be something

581
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,000
valuable here, but I don't know 
what to do because I got no one 

582
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,880
to go to. 
You know, if you got a week or 

583
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:18,400
whatever where you're not 
playing go like go throw a jumbo

584
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,239
grip on your 9 iron in the mid 
South on your 8 and leave 

585
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,800
everything else standard and 
just go dig it out the dirt at 

586
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,760
the range and see what you see. 
I like it. 

587
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,840
I like it. 
How do you, if someone's doing 

588
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,360
that, how do they make sure it's
not a weight, a weight issue 

589
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:38,520
that causes that well? 
You know, you could go online to

590
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,760
the manufacturer website and 
check the weights. 

591
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,000
So like just on the weight. 
Then I think this is like this 

592
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:50,080
will be my my PSA for the day. 
OK, white grips are heavy. 

593
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,920
So if you if you wear like the 
golf pride tour wrap and then 

594
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,480
the white golf pride tour wrap, 
it's like 10 grams heavier. 

595
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,960
It makes a big difference in 
swing weight. 

596
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,160
I guess I have to put so much 
white dye in the rubber. 

597
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,640
It makes it heavier. 
So they'll go white and then, 

598
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,600
you know, Yeah. 
Check the manufacturer website 

599
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,960
at most places. 
Like there's Redwood Watch just 

600
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,600
down the street from me. 
Yeah. 

601
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,040
And they got a little club 
building set up. 

602
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,040
They got a gram white scale. 
So, you know, just ask the guy 

603
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,360
to weigh the grips for you so 
you can see what you're dealing 

604
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,080
with, you know, and ideally if 
they have a swing white scale 

605
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,920
and maybe they need to slap a 
piece of lead tape on the head 

606
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,680
to keep the overall balance the 
same. 

607
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,000
OK, got it on it. 
I'm on it here. 

608
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:37,120
I'm going to share my screen and
so you can so dynamometer I'm I 

609
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:41,400
need to order right now. 
So we're just, we're just 

610
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,120
throwing one of these on there. 
Yeah, yeah. 

611
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,800
Like those two on the left are 
kind of our normal ones. 

612
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:51,800
If you want to go all out, we do
for all of our research stuff we

613
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:56,600
do use that one on the right. 
It's 300 bucks not not necessary

614
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,760
for the at home user or the golf
Academy. 

615
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:00,080
OK. 
Got it. 

616
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:02,280
All right, we'll grab. 
We'll, I'm going to grab one of 

617
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,520
those. 
I'm not. 

618
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,480
Man. 
OK, so we, we've got everyone 

619
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,440
needs to grip it more at setup 
that is for sure. 

620
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,120
And then maybe depending on your
your Swing type, there could be 

621
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,640
some some interventions you 
could try to help make some 

622
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,040
changes. 
And it's like the most general 

623
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:29,000
blanket statement possible. 
You know that we're pretend 

624
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,080
we're back in Scotland like a 
few years ago and we're you 

625
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,200
know, we're out at a pub having 
to be going, oh, I don't know 

626
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,480
about this golf thing. 
You just tell me how I squeeze 

627
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:41,000
it like, oh boy, well, squeeze 
it pretty tight, like a like a 

628
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,960
good firm handshake. 
And I start try and feel that 

629
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,680
stay constant through the 
backswing. 

630
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,360
Try not to try not to feel an 
increase. 

631
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,120
OK. 
And then in transition when 

632
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:58,840
you're changing direction, feel 
like it's, you know, it lightens

633
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:03,440
up if anything. 
So it's like, start strong, stay

634
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:07,920
constant, relax when I change 
direction, and then hey, from 

635
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,440
there whatever else happens, 
happens. 

636
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,040
Sergio had the regroup, right? 
He always did. 

637
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,000
Or who did? 
Who does the regroup at like? 

638
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,760
Transcript. 
I mean he would regroup it like 

639
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,160
100 times at setup, you know, in
transition. 

640
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,400
Didn't he do it in transition? 
Where he kind? 

641
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,840
Of he might have. 
You could see. 

642
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:28,160
Yeah, I think, yeah. 
Yeah, when he get I've seen a 

643
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,400
ton of images of like when BJ 
gets contact and is 

644
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,360
right-handed. 
So I plan off the club. 

645
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,960
Yeah, see that a lot in baseball
too. 

646
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,000
Yeah, it's it's interesting, 
man. 

647
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,480
Like, I think we're just 
scratching the surface when you 

648
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:48,160
know it's going to be 3 to five 
more years before we really have

649
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,720
deep, valuable insights. 
Yep, Yep. 

650
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,720
Sweet. 
All right. 

651
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,360
Thanks for sharing, man. 
Yeah.