Ball Flight Trident

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this video is the ball flight trident so this is a drill for helping you with

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your skill making of shot shaping or controlling the path. I have two different

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kind of go-tos that I use for working on the path. One is the four square drill

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and then two is using the alignment stick because not everyone wants to set up

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the whole four square system on the range when they're practicing especially if

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you're practicing off mat. Not everyone wants to pull out a ruler and have

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things

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in every different direction and sometimes four square allows you to

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coordinate it based on the negative space which can be helpful for a lot of

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people but trident focuses you to just follow the sticks and basically stay

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more in the positive space. So I've got the yellow sticks roughly in line with

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these flags and then I've got two different alignment sticks. One going

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about 15 degrees to the right and one going about 15 degrees to the left. So on

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track man if you start to get a curve of about or a swing direction out about

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15 degrees you're going to get some pretty bigger pronounced curves. So what

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we're going to do is we're going to use this to help us calibrate a big inward

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out path and a big outward in path. Now when I go to hit these shots here for

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the

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camera I'm going to stay in this setup position but normally I would go back

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there and I would look from behind the yellow behind the target line to kind

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of calibrate where I'm swinging each time. So all essentially what I'm going to

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do is I'm going to hit some shots alternating from in to out to in to back

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to center or vice versa. I might do a couple swings but I'm going to bounce

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back and forth so my brain can get used to a feeling of an inside out versus an

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outside in path. I can do this in one of two different ways. One I can take it

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just my normal swing and adjust my setup to get the path to go where I want it

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to

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compare to the target. And two is I'm going to keep my setup the same and try

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and change my technique. I'd recommend if you're in season that you do more of

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the setup variety but if you're doing some long-term you know off-season

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training

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and you're working on your swing technique then changing the path with

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your swing could be a valuable skill. So first thing I want you to do is just

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take a normal just whatever your stock swing is and just kind of taking a

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snapshot of where that divot is pointing. So right now my divot is

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pointing pretty close to straight to the yellow flags. So now I'm going to do

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the

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setup version first or the yellow sticks I should have said not flags. So now I

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going to set up parallel to the blue stick and I'm going to close the face so

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it's a little bit left of if I had a blue stick extending out this way it

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would be a little bit left of that. Somewhere between the blue stick and the

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yellow stick depending on how much I want it to curve. So if that blue stick

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was going out here that club face is going to be just closed. If I'm new to

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curve and this feels weird then I can set up and I can just point the club face

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at the yellow stick and trust that I'm going to hit more of a pull or even an

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overdraw. So now I've got my body parallel to that blue stick club face is

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just a little bit more closed than where I was on the first shot and now I'm

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going to try to make the same swing along the blue stick. If I do so what

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you'll see with the ball flight the divot is matching the stick and I have

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much more of a pronounced curve or more of a draw than I had on my first my

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stock swing. So now this one can be a little bit tougher for some golfers

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especially if you're used to swinging into out but I'm going to set up now

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with my body parallel to the purple stick and the club face slightly opens. I'm

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not quite pointing at the yellow stick but somewhere in between where the

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purple

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stick would extend in the yellow stick. Now if I make the same swing this will

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start left the divot was more in line with that purple stick this will start

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left and curve back towards my target. So that's what I would recommend messing

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around with in season or if you're getting ready for a tournament is just

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making some simple setup changes to ultimately control your ball flight. But

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the more advanced version is to do it in swing. So just to kind of bounce back

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and

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forth we'll take another just kind of stock swing. So that goes pretty much

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over the flags and now I'm not going to change my setup but I've got to get

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that

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same feeling and I've got to get that same relationship. So I'm going to add a

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little extra Jackson 5 little extra arm shallow a little extra motorcycle so

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that I can get the path coming more into out along the blue stick. So a little

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bit

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more thin but was able to get the ball flight pretty similar to when I did it

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set up wise. Just had a little bit of trouble with the low point. So now

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following

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the purple stick with the swing I'm gonna get set up with the yellow and I'm

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going to swing a little bit more outside in and kind of have to hold it off in

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order to get it to curve back. So got that one to get pretty close to the same

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ball flight is when I did it with my swing. So those are kind of my three

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different options. As I said some people prefer the four-square some people

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prefer the trident. The key is to figure out which of these setup stations work

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well for you when you're working on your path or your ball flight control and

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put in the reps practicing it the way we just set up here.