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Hi. This is bj Barger from Alexandria, Virginia. In addition
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to joining Fred on an awesome Golf Smarter adventure to Prague,
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I'm a member of Laurel Hill Golf Club and I
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play lots of golf with LPGA, Imateurs and American Singles Golf.
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This is Golf Smarter.
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Number four hundred eighty eight, published on May twelve, twenty fifteen.
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Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain
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insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the
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Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets old. Our
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interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations
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like this that are no longer available in any podcast app.
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First off, I never take a practice swing at the
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golf ball. I would select a club. My practice wings
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are behind the ball on the target line, and they
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may not be full. I may take a full casual
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practice swing rip on a tea box just to make
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sure that I'm loose. When I set up to hit
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a shot, I'm gonna tee it up, make sure my
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feet you got a comfortable place to stand. Then I'm
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gonna stand behind the ball. And this all takes just
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a moment, and I'm going to look in where I
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want my golf ball to start? Where's my start line
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from there? It's why do I want my ball to curve?
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If I'm gonna play a little fade or a draw,
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I mean, I'm going to visualize that. So if I
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wanted to start somewhere, that's one thing. I can aim
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the face as best I can to start the ball there.
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If I need to curve it, I need a clubhead
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path go in a slightly different place than more my
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face starts it, because you need a differential between face
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and path the curve the ball. And as a golfer,
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to become a good golfer, you have to learn how
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to take conscious thought through the right experience and repetitions,
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so it jumps the fence into subconscious. So that communication
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isn't smoke signals, and it's not even old analog phone
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that it's high speed fiber optic. Because when the communication
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from brain to body become high speed fiber optic, now
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people can say they're really not thinking about something because
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their consciousness know they're thinking. It's so fast that they
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look and react. That's rubbish. You play that way because
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the consciousness one from slow calculated into some conscious look
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and react behavior that's trained in.
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You can avoid golf lessons and save a lot of
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money using the right training aids.
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With Martin Chuck, this is Golf Smarter Premium.
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Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome back to the Golf
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Smarter Podcast. Martin, Hey, it's.
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Great to be back, Bretta. Thanks for having me.
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It's my pleasure. I really enjoy having you on the show,
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and I want to talk to you about what's going on.
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I've been seeing you on Revolution Golf a time. You've
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been doing a lot of golf videos, a lot of
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phenomenal instruction, thank you, and really helpful stuff. I mean,
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I hate to admit it, but yeah, I'm watching you
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on Revolution Golf because I'm getting some great tips.
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Thank you.
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So doctor to me, what's going on with that?
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Well, you know, I have a lot of fun with it.
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It's a great platform, goes out to tons of people,
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and you know, just that kind of exposure for me
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is really exciting. I know that I've had a message
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in the game of golf talk to me from some
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great mentors, and it's just a pleasure for me. To
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share that with people, you know, whether they're in the
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United States, Canada, around the world, wherever.
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And but you're doing a lot of stuff. I mean,
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how often are you doing are you doing new tips?
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You know? I'm usually on Relution Golf once a week,
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sometimes twice. I'm on twice this week, will beyond tomorrow,
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be on Friday, and then usually they kind of have
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me plugged in on Tuesdays right now, which is plenty
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because there's a blogging component, you know, we answer questions
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and people have questions. So every day I'm kind of
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dedicated to get online and answer questions in the blog
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to anybody that wants to ask me questions. It keeps
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me kind of busy, is it okay?
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If you answer questions.
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Here, that's why I'm here.
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But well, well, the reason I say it that way
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is because right now we're broadcasting this live via video
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on periscope, and so yeah, and so the audience looking
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at you, hopefully they can hear you as well. I
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know they can hear me, and I'm looking at my screen.
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So if anybody who's watching via periscope wants to ask
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a question of Martin, please go ahead and submit it
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on the screen, I'll be able to see it and
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I will ask him myself. But I have a couple
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of questions I need.
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To ask too, firewaymen.
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Great, let's talk about your product line always. You're You're
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beyond being an excellent golf instructor. You are a very
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creative entrepreneur with non tech gadgets. But I mean it's
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you know, like, there's so many things that need batteries
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right now that you don't have to do that. You're
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not creating, you know what.
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I'm just not very smart, Fred, So there requires any
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kind of electronics or something techie. It's not coming from me,
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I'm afraid.
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Well, let's talk about your last product, and I'm going
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to embarrass you right here. You were supposed to send
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me one of those inflatable balls. You did not, And
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just recently I started remembering about and thinking keep your
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arms together, keep your arms together. Yeah, So tell me
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about that product and what the purpose of it is
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and why it helps.
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Well, you know, it's called the smart ballont I called
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it the smart ball because I couldn't come up with
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a better name. But the basically it's an inflatable, tiny
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beach ball. It's on the exterior. It's got kind of
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a felt feel to it, so it kind of sticks
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to your arms a little bit more effectively than just
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a plastic beach ball. And then it's got a loop
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for an attachment to an adjustable lanyard, and that of
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course lander goes around your neck and then you can
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buil the ball up. It's a six inch ball, and
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that ball fits below your elbows, between your elbows and wrists,
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and when you can manage that triangle of your forearms
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while in your golf swing, a lot of good things happen.
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So you know, there's been products out there in the past,
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and you know, all I think I did was invents
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a little bit better mouse trap, because there's been some
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good products in the past, but the problem was if
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you weren't good at it, the ball dropped and you'd
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be chasing it around or you know. So I thought, well,
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I'm going to make something that somebody can stuff in
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their golf bag that's pretty durable, that they can blow
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up when they want to use it, you know, deflate
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when they don't put in their bag, and then it
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goes between your forms or also you can use it
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as a lot of people will use it under one
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arm or the other, which is a you know, a
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classic connection drill that coaches have been trying to get
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people to do for years of their arms that don't
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run off their bodies so much. So it's just a
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simple thing, and you know, the poleasing thing about it
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is it's been picked up by a lot of tour
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players and it's been fun. Like Darren Clark, you know,
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Ryder Cup captain major winner, sent me a video of
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him using it, you know, at royal Port Rush, his
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club in Northern Ireland, and it's on vine, you know,
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which is another apvocant keep track to all these apps.
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Nowadays there's there's Darren Clark using it, and then a
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lovely gallon the LPGA tour Beatrice Riccari uses it. She's
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been a great proponent of it, and then Charles Howell
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uses it, and a bunch of tour players do it,
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and honestly, I haven't reached out to get him away.
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They've found it and they've ordered it and they they
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use it. So you know, I'm monitored that they considered
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a training aid worthy of use and I'm excited to
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you know, help help out with that kind of level
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of player. Want to get better.
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That was very subtle, Martin. But I feel like a
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total scumbag right now saying why didn't I get my
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smart ball on these people who are making millions on
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the tour, you know, And I'm just I'm.
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Happy to send you one man in my oversight. Unfortunately,
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you know how you get you get busy. Next thing,
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you know, it's yeah, you're very busy.
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So so explain how it works and what it's supposed
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to do, because I know that there's multiple functions for it.
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Well, you know, like I said, you know, you blow
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it up. You put the lanyard around your neck, so
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you've got the suggestible thing, and you kind of get
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it fit for your personal body shape in height, and
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then you kind of hold u between your forums and
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if you can go back and make a back swing,
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certainly in a pitching motion a three quarter shot, if
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you can manage your arms, you're going to become a
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pretty effective player in that aspect. If you're very flexible,
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like a lot of the younger people and professionals are,
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you know, you can take this and pretty much hit
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full shots with it. So most players fred are stuck
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with a whole mentality you know, you've got to keep
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your head down, stay down, stay down, stay down. So
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they've got that that's almost that infliction to such a
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degree that their arms and their body don't work together.
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And when that happens, their elbows separate too much, and
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then they don't have a decent radius of their golf swing.
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The combination of arms in club is a unit. Well,
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the ball smart ball helps keep your forearms, sort it
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together so that it's easier for you to maintain that
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swinging radius and you'll have a little bit more success
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and reliability hitting a golf ball.
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And when you don't inflate the ball.
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Oh, when you don't inflate the ball, you'll use it
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under your left arm, between your left arm and pack
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or right arm and pack. And when it's in there,
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you've got the ability, you know, to feel some arm connection.
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More so so it depends on what you you know,
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what you need and what you want to work on.
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You know, there's the whole idea of connection in a
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golf swing made famous by Jimmy Ballard, you know, in
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the late seventies and eighties. You know, it helps with
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that feeling, the the awareness of forearms sting a in
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a proximity to one another, made famous by Ben Hogan
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in the fifties in his great book You know, So
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it helps with elements that coaches have tried to get
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people to understand for years, and it's it's just a
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it's a simple product. I mean, it really is. It's
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you know, like I said, I'm not very smart, and
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therefore it's a pretty simple product. But I'm glad it
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helps people.
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You don't have to be smart to make a great product.
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You're right, I'm an example.
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Why is it important to you know, the idea of
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keeping under your arm like that so that your arm
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doesn't sweat, swing out on your on your back swing.
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Right, yeah, yeah, So why should improve a golf swing? Right?
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Everybody falls in love with the target line, so they
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always see the ball and they see the pin. They
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want the ball to go A to B and that
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makes perfect sense. But what we get sucked into as
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golfers is we try to control the clubhead to make
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it go down that line, and that defies the geometry
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of a circle. So when you have anything like when
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you have connection awareness, you realize pretty quickly that the
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only thing successful can be a rotational motion that produces
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a straight shot, you know, via good contact and trying
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to guide something down the line actually destroys speed and
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destroys control. So getting those things under check with something
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like a connection connection exercise, whether it be just a
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towel across your chest and you're holding with both arms,
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you know, that tends to be kind of cumbersome and awkward,
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whereas the smart ball, when it's deflated, feels it's a
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thin little bladder really, and it fits in your arm
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quite comfortably, and it's just again, it's a simple way
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for you to practice. And when you relax and your
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arm comes away, it doesn't fall on the ground. You're
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not picking it up. It just kind of hangs from
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the lanyard that's around your neck, as it does when
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you're using it blown up between your forearms.
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That is such a cool idea. It is so simple
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and it works so well.
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You wait for my next one coming soon.
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Oh boy, can you talk about it?
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Yes, I can. It's called the Sammy. You know, it's
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called the Sammy.
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Because that's my middle name.
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There you go, but it's for my daughter Sammy. Samantha.